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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When New York City hospitals began suspecting Legionnaires' disease as the cause of the unusual type of pneumonia from which six garment-district patients were suffering, they sent blood samples first to the CDC laboratory in Manhattan for analysis and then to Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the diagnosis. By then two victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malady in Manhattan | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Believe me, I know your type. Probably asked Albert Lord why his family took the name of a famous celebrity...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Fresh Man to Freshman | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

...last year Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, proposed a variant: cuts in income taxes for both companies and their workers if wage increases are held to 6% and price boosts to 4%. Proxmire's bill would authorize the Administration to try either type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tepid Temptation of TIP | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...often been overlooked. Now that imbalance should be somewhat corrected. Last week, after months of careful, skillful and imaginative use of the new gene-splicing techniques, California scientists announced that they had achieved a long sought goal: the creation in the lab of a microbe that can manufacture human-type insulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Creating Insulin | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Meanwhile, what to do with the money will be a problem. More will be invested in developing new kinds of energy-shale oil, solar power, coal gasification-but the Sisters expect utility-type regulation by governments that will hold down their return. There is still strong sentiment in Congress to limit, though not forbid, acquisitions in non-oil energy fields. Acquisitions of completely unrelated businesses, like Mobil's link with Marcor, probably will be held back both by political opposition and by :he feeling of most oil managements that they should stick to fields in which petroleum expertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Seven Sisters Still Rule | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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