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...some of the San Francisco area's most experienced investors and last year took in $123 million in one of the largest public stock offerings ever. But that sum has dwindled as Diasonics has lost $103.7 million since the beginning of 1983. Troubles in its line of digital X-ray devices distracted management from other problems and sapped funds before the line was sold to another company. Now Diasonics has shaved its work force from 1,700 to 1,100 and hired a cadre of former Texas Instruments executives to try to save the firm...
...arrangements at Caracas' Simón Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
...basement, which in the past has housed several research Labs, will now hold much of the department's computers, X-ray machines and other high technology equipment, currently scattered throughout several buildings...
...road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing the cop's curiosity Bad move, buster. As Parnell watches out of the rear-view mirror, the cop opens the trunk, which emanates weird x-ray emissions and zaps the poor guy to smithereens. J. Frank drives off into the California sunset...
They are situated above grocery stores, in prefab buildings, near noisy bars and open sewers and on the grounds of abandoned convents. Goats and chickens come with the terrain, as do water shortages, blackouts and the occasional political coup. Many lack facilities normally considered standard: research libraries, X-ray machines, fresh cadavers. But for about 15,000 U.S. students desperate to become doctors, the makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been...