Word: syntex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pets also? An article in the current Science and Public Affairs, a respected scientific magazine, asks that question in all seriousness. The answer is yes, according to the authors, Chemist Carl Djerassi, Veterinarian Wolfgang Jochle and Andrew Israel, a medical student. The first two are also top executives at Syntex, a firm that produces contraceptive pills...
...supervisor; film assembly workers are allowed to run their machines at the pace they think best. AT&T eased supervision of its shareholder correspondents and let them send out letters to complainants over their own signatures, without review by higher-ups. Absenteeism decreased and turnover was practically eliminated. Syntex Corp. allowed two groups of its salesmen to set their own work standards and quotas; sales increased 116% and 20% respectively over groups of salesmen who were not given that freedom...
...suburban Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Troppi, already the parents of seven, became apprehensive about the possibility of another pregnancy. Mrs. Troppi obtained a prescription for Norinyl, Syntex Laboratories' contraceptive pill, and her nervousness vanished. But her calm mood, she claimed, was the result of her druggist's mistake: he had given her Nardil, a tranquilizer, and Mrs. Troppi later gave birth to a son. If the Troppis can prove negligence, a Michigan court of appeals ruled, a lower court can then order the druggist to pay damages. In computing the amount, the appeals bench said...
...beagle reaction justify the Food and Drug Administration recommendation that testing of chlormadinone be suspended, and the dutiful decision by Syntex to recall the contraceptive? Researchers engaged in chlormadinone test programs point out that no one knows whether beagle bitches are more likely than other animals to develop abnormal and possibly precancerous nodules under heavy stimulation by hormones. (It is known, on the other hand, that monkeys given similar doses did not develop the lumps.) Furthermore, even the three pathologists who examined the "breast tissue" from these beagles could not agree completely about which samples were benign and which might...