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...1980s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began receiving more and more reports of side effects from the drug -- everything from amnesia to agitation. The increase could be explained by the rising number of people taking Halcion, but the drug got some bad publicity when a Utah woman killed her mother while on Halcion and sued the manufacturer. Upjohn settled the case out of court, all the while denying that the drug was to blame for the murder...
...only nine months apart in age. They often spend three or four hours a day together, popping into each other's offices and easily lapsing into conversations about world affairs. Both were military pilots in the 1940s, with Bush flying for the Navy and Scowcroft, a Utah native and West Point graduate, for the Air Force. Like Bush, Scowcroft came close to losing his life when his P-51B Mustang made a forced landing in a New Hampshire forest. The impact broke his back, and he spent two years in a hospital, where he met a nurse, Marian, who became...
Even after that, most Americans tended to regard the state as a remote and mysterious place notable only for the Great Salt Lake, striking desert landscapes and the multiple marriages of some of its inhabitants. But while outsiders snickered, Utah was working a quiet revolution. It now boasts the nation's youngest, best-educated and most productive work force. It has launched an aggressive economic development program to create new jobs at a rate of 30,000 a year. About 80% of these positions were started by local entrepreneurs. But Utah has also lured such companies as Delta Air Lines...
...Mormons deserve much of the credit for Utah's economic vibrancy. Two- thirds of the population of 1.7 million belongs to the church, which has helped to shape the boom in both direct and indirect ways. In business terms, the church is an $8 billion-a-year conglomerate that employs about 10,000 people. Bankrolled in large measure by tithes from its members, the church has vast holdings in real estate, financial services, broadcasting, publishing and insurance. The church's strict morality (it forbids premarital sex, gambling and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs) reinforces the hardworking nature...
...Mormons' proselytizing tradition has made Utah attractive to companies in the U.S. and abroad. Each year the church sends out thousands of young men (and some women) to live abroad and preach the Mormon word -- in the local language. As a result, Utah has a disproportionately high number of people who are fluent in foreign languages, a prime selling point in the global marketplace. Compeq, a Taiwan-based computer-board maker, decided to open its first overseas plant in Utah in part because its managers knew Utah has hundreds of Mormon missionaries familiar with their country's culture and language...