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...breakthrough treatment for kidney cancer. Cetus, the California biotechnology company that developed the drug, hoped it would become the firm's first real moneymaker. That hope was dashed last week when the Food and Drug Administration declined to give the drug approval for widespread use until more thorough research is conducted. While IL-2 shrinks tumors in some patients, researchers contend that the drug can also trigger cardiac arrest and other serious complications. Cetus last month suspended clinical trials of IL-2 as a treatment for high blood pressure when findings proved inconclusive. After investing more than $100 million...
...department began what Graham called "a thorough search, a long search" for a new women's coach in late spring. Krass announced this May, after leading the team to the Ivy League championship, that he would leave the post he had held for four years. The department posted notices in a number of publications, and although it attracted 60 applicants, it interviewed only five or six of them, said Athletic Director Bill Cleary...
...think I have any idea about what's going on in the S&L business . . . When I joined the board, of course I hadn't had any experience in a financial institution. But this management provided a very large amount of detailed information, and we had thorough discussions, whether regarding transactions that came before the board, the financials, or whatever it was. I became so much more knowledgeable than most outside directors because of the incredible amount of documentation that was provided to us. It wasn't like you just show up, collect your little monthly meeting fee, have...
...Their thorough reporting produces a portrait of a leader who "was changing in front of the nation's eyes" as he confronted the hugeness of the task facing his crumbling empire. Shortly after taking power, Doder and Branson report, Gorbachev embraced an aide's suggestion that he study Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; as a result, his public style was transformed. He abandoned the cant of Marxism and brusquely told opponents...
...while many praise him for the seriousness with which he faces the duties of his office, others complain that Bok has little tolerance for anyone he feels is less thorough and thoughtful than he is--in other words, for anyone who disagrees with...