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The astronauts also grew samples of proteins used in AIDS and cancer research that are difficult to make on Earth, but which may flourish under near- weightless conditions
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I beg the tribunal to understand that my zeal did not flow from sympathy with the goals or behavior of most of my clients
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In a joint venture with a Japanese company this fall, Nucor Corp. of Charlotte will start melting steel in a new 500-worker I- beam mill at Blytheville, Ark., on the Mississippi
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As simple as that sounds, Joseph Duffy, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the case, will have a tough time proving the charges to a federal court jury without also putting the panel to sleep
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When they repeated the tests with the special precautions, the sensational results evaporated
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Last year, Mexico claimed that the equivalent of 6, 200 acres of poppies were destroyed, up from 5, 900 acres the previous year
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Along the way he graduated from Georgia State University, worked two years as an eighth- grade math teacher and developed a passion for riding -- and compulsively tinkering with -- dirt bikes
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Former JFK adviser Sorensen, harking back to 1960, tells Dukakis to state positions crisply and be well rested
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Nike and L.A. Gear rode good earnings, publicity about the Olympic Games and disappointing news from rival Reebok International to sharp gains, each on heavy trading of about 1.3 million shares
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NASA partisans blame the administration for allowing the civilian space agency to drift and deteriorate through the 1980s while pouring vast sums into the Pentagon
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" He ate and slept until he looked like he was going to break, " recalls Kathleen Perry
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In the Persian Gulf, Iran twice attacked a Norwegian tanker
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Even when trying to right itself, Merrill stumbled
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" Germany is being regarded more and more as a high- cost producer of goods, and money will flow more and more to countries that produce more efficiently, " said Christopher S. Bourdain, a senior financial markets adviser at BankAmerica International
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Several Wall Street investment bankers said clients have instructed them to examine the feasibility of topping the Swiss giant's bid, but emphasized that interest so far is preliminary
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In Beirut, the pro- Iranian group Jihad threatened to kill its American and French captives if any attempt was made to storm the jetliner
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The father and grown son walked slowly, their long, ebony shadows in sharp contrast against the tawny strips of switch grass, as the young hunter's golden retriever melted in and out of sight in front of them
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Meanwhile, the prospect of new generations of products related to personal computers kicked off rallies in the previously sluggish shares of OTC disk- drive makers
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Realism might drown it
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Ronald Reagan, as popular on Main Street, U.S.A., as any recent president, expressed his affection for the SBA by marking it for extinction, along with Amtrak, the Export- Import Bank, the Economic Development Administration and other programs deemed to be drinking too deeply from the federal budget trough
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But some holdouts still ride into the arena sporting soft white Stetsons, which provide scant protection against opponents wielding 60-inch fiberglass mallets with hard rubber heads
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My mission is to save the country, to establish a durable, irreversible democracy and to step down.'
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They never say excuse me, " says Jacqueline Yun, a crop- haired Korean- American, as she drags on a cigarette
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While acknowledging that the many hits he has taken have had an impact, Mr. Quayle says it is merely " a question of when that perception will evaporate.'
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This avoidance of tradition gets reinforced by the many critics who attack as unrealistic, and possibly immoral, any effort to portray the Vietnam experience as similar to that of World War I, World War II or Korea
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" We're guaranteed to miss some of the up market, " he concedes
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He then kicks the pedestals out from under them
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Mr. Thunberg of Ried Thunberg said the Fed has " aggressively " absorbed reserves over each of the past three days, creating some confusion about its intentions
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If he eventually wins the war -- curbs Eastern's costs and fixes Continental's service problems -- his airlines, with their exceptional size and market dominance, may become for him a kind of mass- production profit machine
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Because exchange rates were securely fixed, the strength of international arbitrage in markets for tradable goods was remarkable
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Sales are dragging for many reasons
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Plastics, an area that Dow has targeted for growth, contributed strongly to the results for the quarter and the year, Dow said
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A new study of Vietnam veterans suggests that most escaped heavy exposure to the poison dioxin, even if they served as ground troops in areas extensively sprayed with the dioxin- containing herbicide Agent Orange
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Less fortunate are cotton growers in Chinandega, ranchers near Leon and other private producers who must operate in the government- controlled formal economy that is ensnared in the red tape of paper work, acreage allotments, distribution regulations and fixed prices
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It was a fight that filled magazines and books and gave professors case histories for business schools
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What's more, the trucks he is pushing have a checkered history: Early versions broke down, got stuck in the mud and languished in fields waiting to be fixed
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His vocal pyrotechnics command the stage even when he is disappearing in a puff of smoke, magically reappearing on a flying crane, or battling hairy monsters who look like they just stumbled in from MTV's " Headbangers' Ball.'
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Mr. Meese of course had good personal reasons for the infernal device he left behind; Washington's Democrats have been trying to destroy Ed Meese since the day he arrived in town, for no reason other than that he looked like an easier target than Ronald Reagan
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News accounts told of thousands of Iranian soldiers at the Iraqi front suffering severe burns and damaged lungs from mustard gas, a poison that killed or maimed over a million people in World War I
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Other regions should escape relatively unscathed, she says
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Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita has stumbled, but not seriously enough to affect his six- month- old government
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The suspension likely will accelerate inter- union warfare, as the electricians step up their recruitment drive at new sites, while other unions try to grab electricians' members in factories where they represent the minority, Mr. Metcalfe says
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A court in London sentenced an American member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army to life imprisonment for killing a British police officer 13 years ago
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He maintains, " It's only a matter of time before these groups step over the line. " They may begin rousting others they dislike -- people " who are not the right skin color or the right religious persuasion, " he says
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While Mr. Gorbachev preached togetherness yesterday, Romania was kicking Hungary's ambassador out of the country
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West German police are seeking a West Berlin woman working for Palestinian terrorists in connection with a 1986 discotheque bombing that killed two U.S. soldiers
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" To me there is absolutely no fun being stuck within the same four walls every day, " she says
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While reconstruction projects may initially absorb many of the workers, the need to find work for men demobilized from Iraq's million- strong army makes it unlikely that guest labor will remain at current levels
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" We wanted an arresting headline that would drag people into the body copy, " says Tambrands spokesman Paul Konney
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Holly Farms' experience is a classic example of how a food company can stumble in launching a product
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As Bismarck wrote more than a century ago: " I, who prepare to go to war, kill thousands, the Christians in the name of God kill millions.'
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Meanwhile, prices in parts of the North that missed the boom might start rising
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More competition is on the way; International Business Machines Corp. is expected to roll out a laptop soon to replace its PC Convertible, a near- total failure in the market
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Yesterday's half- point increase in base rates to 9.5% isn't likely to be enough to cool inflationary pressures because it didn't trigger a rise in mortgage rates, said Gwyn Hacche, an economist at James Capel& Co. " Mortgage rates are one of the main mechanisms by which a change in interest rates affects the demand for consumer credit, " he said
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A purported$ 16-a- share offer for Superior Industries International Inc. evaporated yesterday after a flurry of activity in which one supposed player, Prudential- Bache Securities Inc., denied it had authorized such a buy- out offer
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Mr. Waters sets his sights on the " hairhoppers, " the polished amateurs who dance on " The Corny Collins Show, " his version of " American Bandstand.'
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Cray plows more than 15% of its revenues back into R& D, a very high percentage even for high- tech companies
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Mr. Weicker, breakfasting with his third wife, Claudia, at a local diner on Coca- Cola, rice pudding, scrambled eggs and hash browns, says the race is close because Mr. Lieberman has been " slinging the{ expletive deleted} in TV commercials for four months, and some of it started to stick.'
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But rock- bottom discounters who stick to that philosophy limit themselves, he says, because " We'll always be a niche player for a certain type of client
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The company has targeted the electroplating industry for several reasons
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As the struggle enters its final weekend, any one of the top contenders could grasp his way to the top of the greasy pole
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So Mr. Tribe of Justice will file a brief arguing for independent counsels; Justice itself has filed briefs attacking these prosecutors, and both arguments are supposed to represent the view of the executive branch
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Amstrad is one of the last major personal- computer makers to sign such an accord with IBM. IBM has stepped up efforts to enforce its patent rights since launching its new line of PS 2 models in April 1987
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And at Mellon Bank Corp., a followership workshop helped smooth a major restructuring in the corporate banking department
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Carole Pfeffer put an ad seeking them in a trade publication and was flooded with close to 1, 000 pictures
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Other people love Acapulco -- and don't miss Frank Sinatra
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" The only thing that would make me feel better about -LRB- the NIH experiment -RRB- would be to put in a second marker gene as a fail- safe, to allow you to kill all the cells of that lineage at will if something went wrong, " one researcher says
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Wolverine Exploration Co. said a Lea County, N.M., well in which it has an interest struck oil
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When sentencing a criminal, the chief justice of the country's Supreme Court takes into consideration whether the felon has atoned for his sins by drinking sakau with the victim's family
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And, to slash costs, he is attacking United's slow- moving, free- spending ways, even banning fresh flowers from his office
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They appear in the internecine killing between different mafia groups, and the killing of judges, journalists, police and government leaders opposed to the drug traffic
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The once high- flying company stumbled in 1986 when competition intensified in the mainframe market, and it has been revamping its product line since then
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Still, calls continue to pour in on Dr. Lapin's 800-NO- BLOOD hotline
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The vice president's confrontation with Mr. Rather also has raised further questions about the media's performance this political season, as CBS and its affiliates were flooded with phone calls, mostly critical of Mr. Rather
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The U.S. side was angry that talks were dragging
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But Madison Avenue's interest in Mr. Tyson is cooling because of the barrage of negative publicity about an alleged suicide attempt and his stormy marriage to actress Robin Givens
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Few things give him more satisfaction now, it seems, than the hundreds of roses, fruit trees and berry bushes the 57-year- old Mr. Lance and a grandson have planted together
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Because Israel doesn't have the luxury of an all- volunteer military force, its army can't escape the schisms of opinion that beset the wider society
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While filling movie houses and exciting donors are both honorable tasks, the facts don't support the histrionics
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Jordan, with a flagging economy and a 4.2% annual birth- rate, couldn't absorb another influx of refugees no matter how sympathetically it viewed their plight
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Parasite infections of people who like to eat raw or undercooked fish are increasing, and the main cause is the rising population of seals and other protected marine mammals, scientists reported
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American officials have concluded that the Kuwaiti hijacking is the work of a Lebanese Shiite terrorist named Imad Mugniyah who has been trying for more than four years to free his wife's brother from prison in Kuwait, where he was convicted in 1984 of building a bomb used to attack the U.S. Embassy
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The number of annual inspections remains unchanged, however, mainly because many more are targeted on the construction industry, where inspections require fewer manhours than they do in manufacturing
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Based on the evidence from the early contests -- including a surprisingly strong second- place finish in last weekend's Maine caucuses -- his populist crusade against " economic violence " is striking a chord among some Democrats beyond his black base
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AN AIRBUS A-320 CRASHED at an air show in France, killing at least three
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The media have given him a ticket to ride, but they're unlikely to leave him in the driver's seat for long
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Last month, Thiokol said it settled the last suit with the estates of the seven crew members killed in the Challenger
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U.S. executives in search of global markets have found that the French don't drink orange juice for breakfast; that Middle Easterners prefer toothpaste that tastes spicy; that the Japanese like herbs in their cold medicines, and that laundry detergent is used to wash dishes in parts of Mexico
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In it, the hero gets dragged to the " Cave Town " mall by his mom, gets lost, gets found, and is rewarded with an ice cream cone
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Mr. Bilirakis's letter referred to the March 2 death of Airman Recruit Lee Mirecki, 19 years old, of Appleton, Wis., who drowned during an elite rescue swimmer training program at the Pensacola, Fla., Naval Air Station
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" Flip " was born 16 months ago at a lunch at Le Toque, an entertainment- industry hangout where Mr. Schreger and Mort Marcus, HRI's telecommunications president, kicked around ideas
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In Tokyo, prices were lower in moderate trading as investors stepped aside before the release of U.S. trade figures and after an early buying spree concentrated in electricals
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Your Oct. 18 international- page article " Lawson Accused of Miscues on Economy: British Chancellor Strayed From Strict Monetarism " illustrates that a country can not radically reduce marginal tax rates without a deterioration of its current trade account; nor can it continue to simultaneously keep exchange rates fixed without suffering an inevitable increase in its inflation rate
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As has been the pattern in other standardized tests recently, younger students showed big strides in grasping basic information
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" On silent nights, great flocks of white birds fly formations past the Camino's Lobby Bar...
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To their astonishment, the alfalfa plants flourished, doubling their foliage and weight
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" Certainly the place where Chambers wrote' Witness' and where the' pumpkin papers' that ultimately indicted Hiss were kept is a place of considerable historical importance and meets the minimal requirements, " said Tony Dolan, a Reagan speechwriter who planted the idea of the historical designation with Mr. Hodel
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Thus, a first milestone has been reached on the road to rebuilding an international monetary order, though it rests on the will and ability of governments to impose self- discipline
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If the Russians had rolled over West Germany last week, it might have made Messrs
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The company has been pumping gas in Houston for more than 25 years, but is classified in the area as a non- major, with a market share of just 2.6%, according to Whitney Leigh
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