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President Clinton has threatened to veto the bill, at least partly out of concern that consumers would suffer from the high prices and cultural limitations that sometimes come with big concentrations of power. "The good news is, these large companies bring the kind of horsepower, creative force and technological advances that one would hope would create a better universe," says Fred Roberts, president of a Los Angeles investment-banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. "On the other hand, it's going to make individuals and entrepreneurs irrelevant because no one is going to be able to compete with these...
Catharsis has come to Union. Perhaps, as her lawyers contended, the jurors decided that Smith has suffered, and will continue to suffer, enough. Perhaps defense attorney David Bruck's final biblical admonishment--"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"--echoed in their ears. Or perhaps they simply reached the cold understanding that killing Smith would not bring those two little boys back to life. Perhaps the jurors could not erase their memories of testimony about Smith as a child and as a sunny young mother on the streets of their small town...
...common, experts say. Some 15 million Americans suffer from this chronic affliction of the airways that can make the simplest act of breathing laborious and can leave a person suddenly wheezing and gasping for air--especially during hot summer months. The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma has grown alarmingly in the past several years. Since 1990 alone, the number of cases has jumped 50%. Even more alarming, the death rate, which had declined steadily during most of the 1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect...
...happened only to Democrats," he quips. Less predictably, his wry remarks on this April day in 1993, 16 months after surgeons removed his prostate, eventually segue into a discussion of the side effects that keep people from seeking treatment. Despite improvements in surgical technique, the majority of patients suffer at least temporary impotence, and a few also become incontinent. "Unless we talk to each other fairly frankly, we don't learn much in these sessions," he tells the group. "Some of the things that we read about don't return quite as quickly as advertised...
Most men between the ages of 65 and 74 have a cholesterol level of 218 mg/dL. Dole, thanks to a low-fat diet and medication, has a commendable 182 mg/dl. Nearly 60% of men in the same age group suffer from hypertension. Dole's blood pressure, however, holds steady at a sound 104/70...