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...accomplish this, Stone and Karp applied some basic business principles to once-floundering Monogram: they cut costs, fired unproductive employees, eliminated worthless products while bol stering a profitable line of recirculating toilets for aircraft. Stone had acquired this talent shortly after graduating from law school, when overnight he made a reputation - and a pile of cash - as a resuscitator of sick companies for Hous ton Fearless Corp. In 1954, the com pany split up, and he joined International Glass, a former division...
...Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, "but living with it is so onerous that many women risk death via criminal abortion rather than suffer its far-reaching effects." How many? No one knew. "Estimates" running from 200,000 to 1,500,000 a year in the U.S. are worthless guesses, said the Population Council's Dr. Christopher Tietze. He also scoffed at estimates of 10,000 deaths annually from illegal abortions, suggesting there might be 500 and possibly 1,000, but no more. Even the lower figure gives a far higher death rate than that from legal abortions...
...cash went to pay off his debts and legal fees. All he was left with was a nearly worthless piece of desert...
Fattening the Waistline. Sinai is a worthless desert, Gaza an economic sinkhole. To try to integrate the 1,330,000 Arabs in all the occupied lands would be costly and perhaps dangerous.* What then did Israel want? For simple security, it wanted at least a buffer strip on the rocky heights of Syria and a slice of West Jordan to fatten out its own narrow waistline. It also wanted free passage through Aqaba, perhaps guaranteed by an Israeli garrison at Sharm el Shiekh...
...required 34 states, however, there is no certainty that a convention would ever meet. Some critics note that the petitions are invalid because they are not identical. Others point out that some of the legislatures that approved them have since been reapportioned, and that the petitions may thus be worthless...