Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

with interest rates of 18 % to 20 % in australia , the debt burden became intolerable to broadcasters such as qintex , which acquired stations in a euphoric period two years ago only to be disappointed by slower-than-expected advertising growth and high programming costs .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex 's resort business also has been hammered since australian pilots began a strike in late august that reduced tourism revenue by as much as 32 % in september from a year earlier , one analyst said .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

`` one of the good things about qintex is it certainly has top-quality assets . ''


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

and -- until skase bid for mgm/ua -- the qintex chairman appeared to be a more frugal buyer of australian assets , according to shvets .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the letter was never delivered , however , and on oct. 10 the deal collapsed amid rancorous accusations and a mgm/ua lawsuit accusing the australian qintex firm of fraud .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

but analysts pointed out that qintex had apparently counted on mgm/ua 's cash -- estimated at $ 145 million -- to help address qintex 's short-term cash flow problems .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

some analysts were still reeling from the qintex entertainment bankruptcy filing last week , because they believed the u.s. company had the australian 's group full backing .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

when a $ 5.9-million payment to mca inc. came due , however , qintex entertainment sought the court 's protection because -- even with the help of qintex australia -- financing could not be arranged , the company said .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

one of qintex 's most visible assets remains the dana point resort project in orange county , which an official described as a top priority now that the mgm/ua deal has collapsed .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

`` this is very important to the company , '' said a qintex official .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the company said it is still negotiating for financial backing in dana point with two japanese companies , mitsui & co. and nippon shinpan co. , which already own 49 % of the three resorts in australia and hawaii that qintex says it 's selling .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex bought two sites in the beach town for about $ 247 million this summer and plans to build a resort for affluent guests .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex australia ltd. , the media and property empire built by entrepreneur christopher skase , went into receivership tuesday in an effort to ward off complete liquidation .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the cash-starved company , which has been in a downward spiral since its proposed buyout of the mgm/ua movie studio collapsed in october , asked an australian court to place it in receivership to prevent the group 's foreign and australian banks from breaking up the company .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the court appointed david crawford and john allpass , chartered accountants with kpmg peat marwick hungerfords , as receivers and managers of qintex australia and 28 associated companies , stripping skase of an operational role in the company .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

peter buchanan , a lawyer representing qintex , told the supreme court in victoria state that it is vital for seven network and other qintex television stations to continue operating so they do not lose their broadcasting licenses .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

crawford and allpass were given wide powers , including the right to hire and fire , sell qintex assets and borrow money .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

a spokesman for qintex entertainment inc. , a beverly hills firm that is 43 % owned by qintex australia , said that firm now has `` little contact '' with qintex australia and still hopes to emerge from chapter 11 bankruptcy protection .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex entertainment has been in chapter 11 since the parent company refused to advance needed cash after the aborted mgm/ua deal .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the banks wanted to avoid a liquidation , he said , because the sale of all qintex assets would cover only a bit more than half the outstanding debts .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex purchased the 232-acre parcel near dana point in southern orange county last july and took an option on a 115-acre property nearby with the intention of building a luxury resort .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

local real estate experts said the price qintex paid for the larger property -- $ 132 million -- was exorbitant .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex owns two luxury resorts in australia and the princeville resort in hawaii .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the cash-starved company , which has been in a downward spiral since its proposed buyout of the mgm/united artists movie studio collapsed in october , asked an australian court to place it in receivership to prevent the group 's foreign and australian banks from breaking up the company .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the court appointed chartered accountants david crawford and john allpass from kpmg peat marwick hungerfords as receivers and managers of qintex australia and 28 associated companies , stripping skase of an operational role in the company .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

qintex purchased the 232-acre monarch beach property from the christopher b. hemmetter and the stein -brief partnership last july for $ 132 million and at the same time took an option to buy the neighboring 115-acre dana headlands property for $ 115 million .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

but qintex earlier this month forfeited its right to the headlands property when it missed an installment payment , and it now appears that the monarch beach property will be put on the block .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

peter buchanan , a lawyer representing qintex , told the supreme court in victoria state that a receivership was necessary because it would enable seven network and other qintex television stations to continue operating and thus retain their broadcasting licenses .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

the banks wanted to avoid a liquidation , he said , because a sale of all qintex assets would cover only a bit more than half of the outstanding debts .


Question: what debts did qintex group leave ?

a spokesman for qintex entertainment inc. , a beverly hills firm that is 43 % owned by qintex australia and has been in chapter 11 since the parent company refused to advance needed cash following the aborted mgm/ua deal , said the firm now had `` little contact '' with qintex australia and still hoped to emerge from chapter 11 .


Question: how deep is crater lake ?

oregon 's crater lake tops it _ or should we say bottoms it _ at 1,932 feet at its greatest depth .


Question: how deep is crater lake ?

rangers at crater lake national park in oregon have closed the hiking trail to the shore of the nation 's deepest lake for most of the summer so that a fuel line can be replaced , a project that has also suspended tour-boat service until july 1999 .


Question: how deep is crater lake ?

visitors will be limited to viewing crater lake from the rim of the caldera , 800 feet above the shoreline .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

oregon 's crater lake tops it _ or should we say bottoms it _ at 1,932 feet at its greatest depth .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

neither u.s. lake comes close to the world record holder , baikal in russia , which in places is 5,371 feet -lrb- 1.02 miles -rrb- deep .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

lake baikal is the biggest , the oldest , by far the deepest , the clearest lake on earth .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

the second largest body of water in russia is lake baikal , which is the deepest freshwater lake in the world , with a maximum depth of 1,637 meters .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

q : when i was vacationing in california at lake tahoe , i was told that it is one of the deepest lakes in the united states .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

if it is n't the deepest one , what is ?


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

a : at its deepest point , lake tahoe goes 1,640 feet down .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

listvyanka , russia _ almost any resident of this village can tick off the seemingly endless string of superlatives about the great lake _ inland sea , really _ that laps insistently against the town docks .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

life has not been kind to the little fish , a distant cousin of the lake herring that inhabits the great lakes .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

but one day recently , a cold wind blew in off the ice -covered lake and customers were scarce , so they entertained a visitor with some of the more exotic omul recipes .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

the caspian sea in the south is actually a salt lake .


Question: what is the deepest lake in the world ?

it has the largest surface area of any lake in the world , 371,000 square kilometers .


Question: what is the deepest lake in america ?

rangers at crater lake national park in oregon have closed the hiking trail to the shore of the nation 's deepest lake for most of the summer so that a fuel line can be replaced , a project that has also suspended tour-boat service until july 1999 .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

nielsen 's rescue from the coldest place on earth was possible only after the antarctic winter relented slightly , making it warm enough -- 58 degrees below zero -- to risk the flight .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

antarctica is the coldest place on earth ; a temperature of minus 129 degrees fahrenheit was recorded in 1983 at russia 's vostok station on the south polar plateau .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

q : it has been reported several times lately that the south pole is the coldest place on earth .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

q : articles about dr. jerri nielsen , who was rescued from the south pole recently so she could be treated for breast cancer , called it the coldest place on earth .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

over antarctica , the coldest place on earth , severe ozone depletion takes place every winter .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

the 19 -member air force crew is racing to the coldest place on earth with supplies for a researcher who has discovered a lump in her breast .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

antarcticans are no longer compelled to nourish themselves with `` hoosh '' _ the disgusting stew of seal or penguin meat mixed with lard , flour , cocoa , sugar , salt and water that fed many generations of polar travelers .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

we were told that it was the hottest place in north america .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

in comparison , that makes the coldest temperature ever recorded in the united states _ 79.8 degrees below zero f , on jan. 23 , 1971 , at prospect creek camp in alaska 's endicott mountains _ seem almost mild .


Question: what is the coldest place on earth ?

measurements taken by instruments carried aloft by aircraft and balloons over the past winter have found that temperatures in the crucial layer of the arctic atmosphere were , indeed , among the coldest on record , and that ozone losses of more than 60 percent occurred .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

in 1986 , president ferdinand e. marcos fled the philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election ; corazon aquino assumed the presidency .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

on wednesday , president joseph estrada said he will allow former gen. fabian ver to return to the philippines after fleeing the country with marcos at the height of the 1986 `` people power '' revolt that toppled the strongman .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

estrada said ver has to face charges in the aug. 21 , 1983 assassination of opposition leader benigno aquino jr. , who was shot moments after he stepped off the plane on his return from exile in the united states .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

the assassination triggered massive anti- marcos protests that culminated in the revolt that swept aquino 's widow to the presidency .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

aquino believes marcos , who died in hawaii in 1989 , masterminded her husband 's assassination .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

marcos denied any role in the murder and said aquino was killed by a communist -hired assassin , rolando galman , who was shot dead by soldiers moments after aquino was gunned down on the manila airport tarmac .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

ver and 25 other soldiers were acquitted of aquino 's murder three months before marcos was ousted .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

but the trial failed to determine whether marcos or his associates ordered the assassinations .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

on feb. 25 , 1793 , department heads of the u.s. government met with president washington at his home for the first cabinet meeting on record .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

ten years ago : president bush left japan , where he had attended the funeral of emperor hirohito , and arrived in china for a three-day visit .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

kim dae-jung , once south korea 's leading dissident , was inaugurated as its president .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

manila , june 20 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- president-elect joseph estrada 's plan to bury the late president ferdinand marcos at the heroes ' cemetery in manila has aroused protests in the philippines .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

estrada said earlier this month that he would allow the remains of marcos to be interred in the cemetery which is usually for war heroes and presidents on july 11 after 9 years of his death .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

estrada , who will assume the presidency on june 30 , urged his countrymen to forgive their former leader , citing marcos ' role in fighting the japanese invaders during the second world war .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

let 's bury him and everything with him will be buried '' , estrada said , adding there would be no state honors for marcos and he would attend the burial if he has time .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

some 28 groups including the church , the business sector , human rights advocates and professionals recently formed a coalition and launched a signature drive to voice their anger at the planned burial of marcos .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

benigno aquino 's death fueled the masses ' anger at the marcos administration .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

three years later , marcos was ousted in a popular revolt called `` people 's power `` in 1986 .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

marcos fled to hawaii , the united states , and died there three years later .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

her successor , president fidel ramos , allowed the remains of his distant cousin to be taken to his hometown batac , ilocos norte , in 1993 , but refused to grant him a state funeral .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

marcos ' corpse now lies in a refrigerated mausoleum at the marcos ancestral home .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

last january , a division of the supreme court ruled that imelda , the widow of marcos , was sentenced to 9 to 12 years ' imprisonment for corruption in an illegal land deal .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

after imelda 's sentence , two swiss banks returned 300 million u.s. dollars of marcos ' wealth to the philippines .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

despite the protests , marcos ' burial seems not to be affected , analysts said .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

manila , august 21 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the joseph estrada administration friday expressed willingness to reopen the aquino -galman double murder case if a crony of the late president ferdinand marcos can provide new evidence to the case .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

the assassination and disgruntlement against the government led to a popular revolt in february 1983 , in which the then president marcos was unseated and went into exile in the united states .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

marcos ' crony , former chief of staff of the armed forces general fabian ver , has reportedly applied for approval to return to the philippines and agreed to tell the truth about aquino 's death .


Question: what female leader succeeded ferdinand marcos as president of the philippines ?

president joseph estrada had already said his administration will not block ver from returning to the country , but added that ver will have to face the criminal charges filed against him .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

the two sides agreed to reopen the pipeline linking iraq 's kirkuk oil fields to the mediterranean terminals of banias in syria and tripoli in lebanon during a july meeting in damascus , the syrian capital .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

on one side of mount hermon the view is of red-tiled roofs of israeli ski lodges and settlements ; on the other is the gray skyline of syria 's capital , damascus .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

syria-scene -lrb- damascus , syria -rrb- _ the scene in the syrian capital .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

the u.s. secretary of state plans to make his first stop in the capital of syria , damascus , to see syrian president hafez assad .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

damascus , july 21 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the arab league -lrb- al -rrb- has decided to establish an arab center for water resources studies and water security in syria 's capital damascus , it was announced here today .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

israel blamed the pflp based in damascus , syria 's capital , for today 's drive -by shooting .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

damascus , january 25 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- damascus , capital of syria , is suffering from serious pollution on account of the immense increase in the number of minibuses and other vehicles in 1996 .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

last wednesday , moratinos told reporters in damascus , the capital of syria , that president assad asked him to secure a goodwill gesture from the israeli government to resume peace talks .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

moussa and al-shara arrived in the moroccan capital rabat today from damascus , the capital of syria , to attend the meeting of the jerusalem committee of the organization of the islamic conference after israel started to build a jewish settlement in arab east jerusalem .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

syria reportedly wants the summit to be held in its capital , damascus , while jordan prefers the summit to be held in the egyptian capital of cairo .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

the syrian official paid tribute to the efforts exerted by the two sides to speed up the reopening of the center and an iraqi one in syria 's capital damascus .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

damascus , october 6 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- egyptian president hosni mubarak stopped over in damascus , capital of syria , on his way back from ankara to continue his mediation between the two countries .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

li peng made the remarks during his talks with syrian president hafez al-assad in latakiya , a mediterranean coastal city some 340 kilometers to the northwest of damascus , the capital of syria .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

more than half of them live in damascus , capital of syria , according to the study undertaken by the canadian government in cooperation with syria and the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east -lrb- unrwa -rrb- .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

syria responded to reports of turkish troops massing along they syrian border by accusing turkey of plotting with israel to create a crisis with the aim of undermining syria .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

we are used to power cuts , '' said hermineh aslanian , a jewelry store owner in the capital 's commercial bourj hammoud district .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

additional roads , tunnels , fly-overs and bridges are needed in the capital city to confront the situation , said the sources .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

the sources call for a scientific and realistic study of the capital 's need for various means of transportation .


Question: what is the capital of syria ?

he added that his organization also is ready to operate an identical service linking baghdad and the iranian capital tehran next year , which will carry iranian visitors to holy sites in iraq .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

march 26 : earvin `` magic '' johnson leads michigan state to the ncaa basketball championship , defeating larry bird and indiana state , 75-64 , in a game widely credited with stimulating interest in college basketball that has yet to wane .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

johnson was also celebrating the recovery of his father , earvin johnson sr. , from a stroke last week .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

every day , he 's gotten better and better , '' johnson said .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

andre , 18 , plans to move to los angeles this summer and work at his father 's company , magic johnson enterprises , which includes coffee houses , restaurants and movie theaters .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

he also plans to study business management at santa monica junior college .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

this looks more and more like one of those old columbo episodes , where we saw who did it and how they did it before the first commercial , then spent the rest of the show watching peter falk work the story backward .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

how can you not pull for the huskies , who have been one of the top teams in college basketball for the past decade and yet been derided by some for never taking the last giant step in the big dance ?


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

two decades have passed since the kid with the magic smile led the spartans past larry bird and indiana state in 1979 .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

o'brien was married to his college sweetheart but lost her to a heart attack in 1991 , and here was a portrait of two girls who had such pride in their father for keeping their lives on track .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

oct. 16 : ove johansson of abilene christian kicks a 69-yard field goal , the longest ever in pro or college football .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

magic was one of the great point guards in national basketball association history .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

magic and larry bird crystallized the melting-pot nature of college basketball and carried that goodwill into the pro game right when the national basketball association really needed it .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

izzo was n't saying that cleaves was as good as magic .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

he was saying that cleaves was as significant to the spartans in the late 1990s as johnson was in the late 70s .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

`` i know there 's only one magic , '' izzo said .


Question: what college did magic johnson attend ?

with magic johnson and steve smith watching , cleaves showed the hardness and the edge .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

johnson was also celebrating the recovery of his father , earvin johnson sr. , from a stroke last week .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

every day , he 's gotten better and better , '' johnson said .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

andre , 18 , plans to move to los angeles this summer and work at his father 's company , magic johnson enterprises , which includes coffee houses , restaurants and movie theaters .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

he also plans to study business management at santa monica junior college .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

the two most important college basketball games ever played are the houston - ucla game of jan. 20 , 1968 , when a national audience watched elvin hayes and houston upend mighty ucla ; and the 1979 game when magic johnson 's michigan state team defeated larry bird 's indiana state team in what remains the highest-rated ncaa championship game ever .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

but by the spring of 1980 , the ncaa men 's basketball tournament was about to fire up again , the year after the epic championship match between michigan state 's magic johnson and indiana state 's larry bird gave college hoops such an adrenaline spike .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

magic johnson sitting in the stands watching something unfold that had n't happened in 21 years _ a national championship for michigan state _ and no doubt flashing back to when he was a sophomore in college , doing much the same thing that cleaves and his teammates were doing .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

`` the magic hour , '' a syndicated talk show , is fronted by earvin `` magic '' johnson .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

a businessman and millionaire many times over , johnson is also a brother from around the way and speaks that language accordingly .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

after harsh , though relatively quiet , criticism of his language skills during a brief stint as a sports commentator , johnson knew he had to be better prepared for his latest battle .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

johnson 's way of saying `` dis '' for the word `` this , '' dat for `` that , '' `` i shoulda , '' and `` all 's i want to do , '' has a good number of african-americans rolling on the floor while others cringe in the embarrassment of a black man butchering the english language .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

johnson is perfectly fine , since he 's just talkin ' like a brotha , ya know ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

johnson 's dialect , as is mine , is a mixture of accent and sentence construction handed down from enslaved africans who did n't speak english and were n't taught it .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

daryl and i grew up in a poor , all-black neighborhood and were educated in cash-strapped all-black schools _ my first `` educated '' peer was a white college roommate from a wealthy suburb whose word usage was jarring to me but considered standard english by my professors .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

johnson 's talk show will go down in flames not because of dis and dat , but because he is charming but not entertaining , and late-night television simply is n't his thing .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

while i 've never talked with johnson , i could see our private conversations dipping into the black vernacular , both of us feeling quite comfortable with the proceedings .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

so how could you people take the 1968 houston - ucla game , merely the most important college basketball game in history , and rank it 49th ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

something else : did television sports begin in 1960 ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

or did we all dream we watched the colts beat the giants in yankee stadium on dec. 28 , 1958 , in pro football 's first overtime game ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

the houston - ucla game was riveting , and the fallout buzz changed the scope of college basketball forever .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

they did get one right , and i 'd have put it even higher .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

what torville and dean did had far more to do with art than sport .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

they do n't come right out and say why the oldest event is the 1960 olympic decathlon duel between rafer johnson and c.k .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

petersburg , fla. _ duke has been in this position before , sailing through march and landing safely on a monday night with the chance to be crowned the premier squad in college basketball .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

they are lured by a passion for basketball , and for what they see as the purity of the college game , which culminates in 19 maddening days in march .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

it is really the only time of the year when college basketball dominates the sports world , no matter what fans in north carolina or indiana think .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

magic johnson and larry bird helped elevate the championship game to another level in 1979 .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

if you want to know why more than 40,000 fans will be at tropicana field on monday night , why one scalper was trying to purchase a pair of courtside tickets for $ 3,500 to resell them for $ 5,000 , and why millions will watch on television , think magic and larry .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

`` i think that it pushed college basketball to another level .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

`` magic 's been promoting that because he won the game , '' bird said .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

for those who could not get tickets to the final four , there was a high school all-star game and college slam-dunk and 3 -point-shooting contests .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

harrison , a reserve guard for uconn who made the team as a walk-on , spoke like someone who did not want this experience to end .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

that spring was also when the seattle supersonics were defending their nba championship and bird and johnson had been through seattle for the first time as pro rookies .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

nor did espn televise the final four , which remains to this day the province of the broadcast networks .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

what i did find helpful and amusing that spring was an espn telecast , or maybe it was a long highlight , that few others might remember _ the finals of the national invitation tournament , which back then had a little fizz because the ncaa had n't yet expanded its field all the way to the van allen radiation belt .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

_drunken college kids spend a fair chunk of the semester gyrating behind espn 's live remote talking-head set on game days so they could show mom and dad back home what a rotten investment that tuition money was ?


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

granger and morris peterson , each of whom did more than their share in securing the title .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

college basketball has been affected deeply by that attitude , to the point where it is now an even-money guess as to whether the best high school seniors even make it to college .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?

but i understand there are chris webbers , magic johnsons , and glenn robinsons .


Question: what college did magic johnson go to ?


Question: where was the first j.c. penney store opened ?

in 1902 , j.c. penney opened his first store , in kemmerer , wyo .


Question: how much money does the u.s. supreme court make ?

a veteran supreme court chief justice will get $ 191,284 , far ahead of the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court at $ 175,400 .


Question: how much money does the u.s. supreme court make ?

a new law will make many of alabama 's judges the highest paid in the nation , with state supreme court pay surpassing that of the u.s. supreme court .


Question: how much money does the u.s. supreme court make ?

a spring survey of judicial salaries by the national center for state courts in williamsburg , va. , shows the pay raises will make alabama 's supreme court the highest paid in the country .


Question: how much money does the u.s. supreme court make ?

circuit judges with 20 years of experience will be the highest paid trial court judges in the country , while circuit judges with no experience will be the seventh highest-paid .


Question: how much money does the u.s. supreme court make ?

to pay for the increases , the legislature raised court fees , including adding $ 30 to speeding tickets and other traffic offenses .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

although ms has been the subject of intensive research activity worldwide , there is still no effective treatment for the disease , in which the body 's immune system attacks the protective coating of myelin protein around nerve fibres .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in ms , white blood cells -lrb- t- cells -rrb- destroy the protein sheath called myelin which protects nerve fibres .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

researchers in oregon and san diego independently report they have used a synthetic molecule to immunize mice against an autoimmune disease -- in which the body 's own immune system attacks its host -- that is widely used as a model for multiple sclerosis .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in ms , some of the person 's immune cells inexplicably attack the nerve cells ' insulating sheaths .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

us scientists have identified the rogue immune cells that are responsible for multiple sclerosis .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the discovery by stanford university researchers working with neurocrine biosciences , a san diego -based biotechnology company , could lead eventually to a cure for ms , which afflicts more than 2.6m people worldwide .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

by good fortune , it turns out that the same genetic sequence causes ms in rats ; having an animal model always speeds up drug development .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

once a blocking technique has been developed , it may eventually become possible to use 'growth factors ' to repair the damaged tissues in ms patients .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

but the ultimate cause of ms - what triggers the t- cells to attack - is not yet understood .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

demand for the first drug proven to have an effect against multiple sclerosis , betaseron , outstrips supply to such an extent that a lottery is used to decide which patients should receive it .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

when schering of germany launched betaseron last september in the us , the only country in which it is licensed for sale , doctors registered 80,000 ms patients who wanted the drug .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

meanwhile two competing beta-interferons , developed by ares-serono of switzerland and biogen of the us , are moving through clinical trials in ms patients .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

besides the interferons , many other 'new generation ' ms drugs are at various stages of research and development .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

together they represent progress on a broad front against ms , the most common disease of the nervous system in young adults , which affects an estimated 2m people worldwide .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

effective ms treatments could give the pharmaceutical industry a huge new market .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

although the precise molecular cause of ms is not yet known , scientists agree that it is an auto-immune disease in the same broad category as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in the worst cases of 'chronic-progressive ms ' the neurological problems become steadily more severe and eventually kill the patient .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in 'relapsing-remitting ms ' the disease flares up at unpredictable intervals - and may even disappear spontaneously .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

neither beta-interferon nor the other experimental drugs can cure ms but , for the first time , they do promise a significant amelioration in the disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

ms specialists such as george ebers , a canadian neurologist at the university hospital , london , ontario , are understandably cautious about claims for new treatments because 'there have been so many false dawns - therapies which have been widely used but found on further study to be ineffective ' .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

researchers also claimed success with drugs such as cyclophosphamide and cyclosporin , which suppress the patient 's whole immune system , but these too turned out to be ineffective against ms when tested properly .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

tested under those conditions on patients with relapsing-remitting ms , betaseron reduced the number of attacks by one third and reduced significantly the amount of nerve damage shown by magnetic resonance imaging .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

all three kinds - alpha , beta and gamma - have been tested on ms .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

alpha had no effect , while gamma made the disease worse ; scientists now believe natural gamma-interferon may play a role in the progression of ms .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

most of the other ms treatments under development aim to disable the specific part of the immune system that is responsible for ms , without suppressing the other immune functions that are essential for fighting disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

these are aimed either at specific types of t-cell which the researchers believe are responsible for the immune attack in ms or at 'antigens ' in the myelin which provoke the attack .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

however , there is vigorous debate between ms specialists about whether the fundamental defect lies in a very narrow sub-group of t- cells - in which case a specific drug could in theory cure the disease - or whether a wider range of immune cells are responsible .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the virus used in the vaccine , htlv-1 , has also been linked to multiple sclerosis , systemic lupus erythematosus , and certain other rare neurological conditions , and is endemic among intravenous drug users in certain eastern urban areas such as new york city .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in january , greenberg and a group from the wistar institute in philadelphia reported independently that they had found traces of htlv-1 or a virus very much like it in many patients with multiple sclerosis , a chronic disease of the central nervous system that afflicts about 250,000 people in the u.s .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

a broad series of experiments suggest that it may be possible to defuse the immune system in humans to treat and even prevent diseases like multiple sclerosis and diabetes .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

moreover , researchers at harvard are already using special antibodies in humans in an attempt to knock out ms patients ' own antibodies that are producing the disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the harvard researchers are also vaccinating some ms patients with immune cells in an attempt to protect them from the ravages of the disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

ms is a paralyzing neurological disease that affects as many as 250,000 people in the united states .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in rodents and some other animals , an ms -like disease called experimental allergic encephalitis -lrb- eae -rrb- can be produced by injecting the animals with ground-up nerve tissue .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in an overreaction to the injected tissues , the animals ' immune systems begin to attack their own nerve tissues , producing ms symptoms .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

ms researchers in the past have used drugs that wipe out all t cells in an attempt to halt the progression of ms , but such drugs leave the ms patient highly susceptible to life-threatening infections .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

if , for example , they know which specific type of t cell is attacking neural sheaths in eae , the animal form of ms , they can produce special antibodies , called monoclonal antibodies , that bind to the t cells and help destroy them .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

neurologist howard l. weiner and his colleagues at harvard medical school and brigham and women 's hospital in boston have used such antibodies to treat about 20 human ms patients .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in their safety trials , they have shown that the antibodies suppress the functioning of the t cells thought to be involved in ms , but they are not yet sure if they produced any remission of the disease because ms often goes into remission spontaneously .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease that causes weakness , tremors and paralysis in as many as 250,000 americans .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

researchers in san diego have developed a vaccine against an animal disease that mimics the effects of multiple sclerosis in humans , according to an article in thursday 's issue of science magazine .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

continuing research in san diego and elsewhere now suggests that doctors might one day be able to prevent and treat diseases such as ms and diabetes , both of which occur when the body 's immune system goes awry .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

ms is a chronic disease that causes weakness , tremors and paralysis .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the san diego -based researchers and the portland group are using synthetic molecules to immunize mice against experimental allergic encephalitis -lrb- eae -rrb- , an animal virus that produces ms -like symptoms .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

ms and eae occur when the body is attacked by its own immune system .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the researchers report in the journal nature today that they have identified the specific type of white blood cell -lrb- t-cell -rrb- responsible for the attack - and matched its genetic sequence to a corresponding gene on the myelin protein .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

lawrence steinman , leader of the stanford/neurocrine research team , says the scientists are following three approaches : the primary effort is to make a 'molecular decoy ' which can attract the t- cells away from the myelin .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the body 's immune system , which is intended to defend it against germs and other foreign invaders , turns against its own cells .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

symptoms include partial paralysis , blurred vision and speech difficulties .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

until now , doctors have only been able to offer patients 'comfort therapy ' such as pain- killers and anti-inflammatory drugs , which control some of the symptoms but have no effect on the underlying disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

according to ares-serono , it may both decrease the activity of the immune cells that destroy myelin and counteract the disease-enhancing effects of gamma-interferon .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

as a result they have sugar chains on the protein surface , like natural human interferon but unlike the schering product .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in theory this could give them a clinical advantage - in terms of fewer side-effects and improved efficacy - but there is no evidence to show whether they work better in practice .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

it suppresses harmful t- cells and may also stimulate the regrowth of damaged myelin .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

myloral , a formulation of bovine -lrb- cow -rrb- myelin , developed by autoimmune , a massachusetts biotechnology company .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the patient is fed the protein so that the immune system comes to tolerate it and therefore is less inclined to attack his or her own myelin .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

copolymer-1 -lrb- cop-1 -rrb- , a synthetic chemical resembling myelin protein , developed by teva in israel .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

when injected into the patient , this decoy attracts the immune cells away from the real myelin .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

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Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

`` i think it is going to be a source of great excitement in the neurological and virological communities . ''


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

unlike most disease-producing viruses , whose genetic information is contained in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid -lrb- dna -rrb- like that found in all animal and human cells , retroviruses encode their genetic information in ribonucleic acid -lrb- rna -rrb- .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

olsen has found traces of the virus in patients with lupus , an autoimmune disorder in which the victims ' immune systems attack their connective tissues and internal organs .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

olsen 's vaccine does not contain the virus itself , but proteins that are secreted by htlv - 1 -infected animal cells that are grown in the laboratory .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in the development of the feline leukemia virus , olsen found that these precursor proteins produce a greater immune response than the viral proteins themselves and are less likely to produce harmful effects .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

that is an important finding , olsen argued , because most potential aids vaccines now being studied use only one type of protein or the other , and are thus less likely to be effective .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

`` more than one protein is going to be necessary '' for an aids vaccine , he said in a telephone interview .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

but white blood cells from the nine vaccinated monkeys showed no evidence of viral activity , suggesting that the vaccine protected them from the virus .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

olsen agrees , and is now using sophisticated genetic engineering techniques to search for the viral genes in white blood cells from the vaccinated monkeys .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

only about 1 % of people infected by the virus actually develop disease , he said , so a vaccine would have to have a very low incidence of side effects to justify using it .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the disease occurs when the victim 's immune system goes awry and attacks the insulating protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells , effectively short-circuiting nerve impulses and producing the disease 's characteristic symptoms : weakness , tremors , disturbances of speech and vision , and ultimately paralysis .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the attack is carried out by immune cells , called t cells , that normally proliferate in response to an infection and destroy the foreign invader .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the goal of most research now is to deactivate only those specific t cells that are attacking the nerve sheath while leaving the rest of the immune system intact .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in passive immunization , the researchers attack the t cells that have already been formed .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in an active approach , such as that reported today in the journal nature , the researchers hope to prevent the formation of the destructive t cells in the first place .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

for 10 years , cohen has been isolating from rodents the t cells that cause eae , diabetes and arthritis , treating them with radiation or chemicals to deactivate them so they do not cause harm , and injecting them back into the animals .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

the immune system produced antibodies against the injected t cells -- and thus against the identical t cells produced by the animals ' bodies .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

these antibodies hold the t cells in check and thereby block progression of the disease .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

weiner has already tried this approach in three human patients , isolating t cells from spinal fluid , deactivating them , and reinjecting them .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

neurologist arthur a. vandenbark and his colleagues at the veterans affairs medical center in portland , ore. , synthesized a small chemical , called a peptide , that is a key part of the t cells that are involved in eae .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

when they vaccinated rats with the peptide , the rats no longer developed eae when they were subsequently injected with ground nerve tissue .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

this approach is preferable to the use of whole cells because it is more widely applicable .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in treating humans , the patient 's own deactivated cells must be used so that the injection does not cause an adverse immune reaction .


Question: what is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body ?

in both diseases , cells that normally keep organisms healthy by destroying foreign cells inexplicably attack nerve cells and cause neurological diseases .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

washington , nov. 4 -- by swinging support between democrats and republicans as if they were playing with a yo-yo , pennsylvania voters have ensured that the keystone state is a prime battleground for the 2000 elections , party activists say .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

pennsylvania regulators thursday took a first -in-the-nation step of ordering bell atlantic to split its keystone state operations into two independent companies to promote local telephone competition , a radical change urged by some bell competitors .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

and in pennsylvania , for one , both parties concede that if republican gov. tom ridge were chosen , the keystone state and its 23 delegates would almost surely go to the gop .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

penn-keystate : keystone state may hold the key -lrb- analysis -rrb- -lrb- norristown , pa. -rrb- they call it the keystone state , and in this unpredictable election year , pennsylvania is living up to its name .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

norristown , pa. -- they call it the keystone state , and in this unpredictable election year , pennsylvania is living up to its name .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

with several new cars promising built-in internet access , will motorists succumb to the temptation to visit the keystone state in cyberspace even as they cruise the pennsylvania turnpike in real time ?


Question: what is the keystone state ?

and if pennsylvanians flip back to the democrats in 2000 , that just may happen .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

but in 1994 keystone state voters sent wofford packing , voting instead for santorum and also giving republican ridge the governor 's mansion .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

contributions from the keystone state came to more than $ 75,000 .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

nothing underscores the importance of the keystone state like the swirl of speculation around ridge , a second -term governor whose support of abortion rights could help bush expand his appeal to moderate voters in key swing states -- if he does n't alienate the gop 's core anti-abortion vote in the process .


Question: what is the keystone state ?

on the most recent one he pleased local chauvinists by commenting , `` i believe that this state is literally the keystone state , and i 'm going to continue to spend an enormous amount of time here. ''


Question: what is the keystone state ?

even if the new design has received mixed reviews in the keystone state , the idea has caught on elsewhere .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

former president corazon aquino , who succeeded marcos , had banned the return of ver and his three sons , all former military officers , on grounds that they posed a security threat .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

some people here fear that under estrada 's relaxed style of leadership , the philippines is drifting back into corruption and cronyism , a hallmark of the country 's deposed dictator , ferdinand marcos , and an occasional weakness of his successors , corazon aquino and fidel ramos .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

former president corazon aquino has also said that if the elections are rigged , she would lead another `` people power '' movement which led to the fall of her predecessor ferdinand marcos in 1986 .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

former military chief of staff gen. fabian ver , once the chief aide to the late dictator ferdinand marcos , has died in a hospital in bangkok , thailand following a long illness , a family spokesman said .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

fidel ramos , who succeeded aquino , continued the ban .


Question: who succeeded ferdinand marcos ?

it is the nation 's flag carrier , a state company until after the ouster of ferdinand marcos , when it was spun off to a group of investors led by lucio tan , an ethnic chinese who traded on his ties to marcos to amass one of the greatest fortunes in the philippines .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

the study examined haze and visitor statistics at acadia national park in maine ; big bend national park in texas ; grand canyon national park in arizona ; great smoky mountains national park in tennessee and north carolina ; indiana dunes national lakeshore in indiana ; mount rainier national park in washington ; and shenandoah national park in virginia .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

the growing problem of dirty air over national parks is disappointing tourists and keeping some away , costing nearby businesses millions of dollars in lost revenue , concludes a study commissioned by several environmental groups .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

in the east , places like the great smoky mountains and shenandoah national parks have had summer -time visibility reduced dramatically because of severe haze caused by man-made pollution from sources miles away .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

still , the report assumes that cleaner air would bring additional people to the parks -- based on the fact that surveys have shown that clean air and unobstructed views are a top priority of park visitors .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

examining seven national parks which pollution problems , the study estimated that a 25 percent increase in visitors would translate into an additional $ 13 million to nearly $ 300 million in additional economic benefits to local businesses , depending on the park -- as well as increased fees for the park .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

'' we 've known for years that hazy skies in our national parks disappoint tourists and local residents alike , '' said angela ledford of the national campaign against dirty power , one of the environmental groups that commissioned the study .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

'' now we know that cleaning up the pollution that cause haze will pump millions into the local and national economies. ''


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

the environmental protection agency last year issued regulations requiring that visibility at 156 national parks be improved by 15 percent each decade , returning to pristine conditions over a 60-year period .


Question: what is one national park in indiana ?

other environmental groups involved in the report are the clean air task force , national environmental trust , and the u.s. public interest research group .


Question: what is the north korean national anthem ?

some of the north korean coaches broke into tears as the north 's anthem , `` the patriotic song , '' played .


Question: what is the north korean national anthem ?

china 's xing aowei had to share his gold on the pommel horse with north korea 's pae kil su , an olympic and world champion in that event .


Question: what is the north korean national anthem ?

the 17-year-old 's 9.700 beat north korea 's kang sun -yong , who took silver with 9.500 , and japan 's yuki ohata , bronze medal- winner with 9.450 .


Question: what is the north korean national anthem ?

after collecting his pommel horse gold , a tearful pae told korean reporters his victory was `` the most honorable moment '' of his life .


Question: what is the north korean national anthem ?

he also said he was retiring and getting married on his return to north korea .


Question: who is the detective on `` diagnosis murder '' ?

another perk is getting to work with his son , barry van dyke , who has a regular role as detective steve sloan on `` diagnosis . ''


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` the goal is to keep rolls-royce motors as a british-owned company , producing rolls-royce and bentley motor cars in the crewe factory with the existing brilliant workforce , '' said donald longmore , a doctor involved in that effort .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

rolls-royce makes its rolls-royce and bentley cars entirely by hand , selling them for prices that begin at around dlrs 250,000 each .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bmw will make rolls-royces after buying the rights to the famous brand and announcing plans to create a new rolls-royce company , while volkwswagen ag will keep the old rolls-royce factory it just bought and continue producing the bentley line of luxury cars .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bmw said tuesday that vw can use the rolls-royce name for free until dec. 31 , 2002 , but after that bmw will take the name away and create a new rolls-royce motor cars ltd. vw will keep the rolls-royce factory in crewe , england , but the company 's name will be changed to bentley motor cars ltd. and vw will produce bentleys , the other line of luxury cars now made by rolls-royce .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

vw will keep the rolls-royce factory in crewe , england , but the company 's name will be changed in 2003 to bentley motor cars ltd. and vw will produce bentleys , the other line of luxury cars now made by rolls-royce that accounts for about 70 percent of the cars sold by the company .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

it was a deal that concluded months of acrimonious negotiations over the future of rolls-royce motor cars ltd. _ the british manufacturer of rolls-royce and bentley cars _ since britain 's vickers plc put the company up for sale in october 1997 .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` we exclusively own the radiator , the flying lady and bentley . ''


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bmw chairman bernd pischetsrieder would say only that rolls-royces would be made in england , but probably not in any of the manufacturing plants it now owns through its rover subsidiary .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

stratospheric prices and exclusivity are part of the cache of bentley and rolls .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` it 's an exciting challenge -- we 've got a lot to do , '' said alasdair stewart , who is in charge of the bentley and rolls operations in the united states .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

it 's an ambitious target given that only 537 bentleys and rolls-royces were sold in the united states last year .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bmw will get rolls in name only -- it will have to build its rolls-royces someplace else .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bentley will try to position itself with new models that are a step above the top-of-the-line mercedes-benz s -class or the bmw 7-series sedans .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

with bentley lacking the same level of brand recognition in the united states as the competition , the company is spending $ 1.5 million on ads in such publications as the wall street journal and forbes magazine .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

one full-page ad , which appeared recently in the newspaper , describes a speeding bentley continental r as `` first-class travel. ''


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

jacobs sees bentley 's lack of image as an opportunity .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` there 's not a lot of baggage being carried by the bentley brand , '' she said .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

analyst jim hall of autopacific inc. said bentley runs the risk of offending its loyal owners if it increases its volume too much and loses some of its exclusivity .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

in the united states , bentleys and rolls-royces are sold at 35 dealers scattered across the country -- most offer the british cars as a sideline .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

the company does not plan to increase the number of dealers , but is reassessing some dealer locations .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

stewart said he sees bentley 's competition as not just other high-priced cars , but high-priced speedboats , jets , jewels and other discretionary playthings .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

the typical bentley buyer 's net worth is between $ 8 million and $ 10 million .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

the company that pioneered the homely , no-frills beetle is moving upscale .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

but while it might seem hard to imagine the beetle and the bentley under one roof _ volls woyce , as one cartoonist envisioned it _ piech appears to be extremely serious .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

but company executives and analysts predict that profits will climb even more quickly over the next year or two .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

the company delayed the offering until march , then went ahead with half the amount of the original plan .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

analysts also complain that the company consistently understates its true profits , a move that allows it to hold on to more cash and keep better control .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

encounter in a bmw 750i , the top model in the company 's line .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

in a startling glimpse of what may lie ahead , piech proudly introduced a new `` concept car '' for rolls ' bentley line that looks as if it came from a different planet .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

piech reviewed a collection of ideas from bentley 's sketchbooks and immediately seized on the idea of a futuristic high-performance sports car that in some ways would harken back to bentley 's roots building some of the sleekest racing cars of the 1920s .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

bmw invested more than $ 4 billion in rover , but the company kept losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year , prompting the ouster last month of bmw 's chief executive , bernd pischetsrieder .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

the bentley concept car , which the company calls the hunaudieres project , for a stretch on the le mans race circuit , attracted great attention ; the rolls exhibit nearby , with little new to offer , remained a lonely outpost .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` what dr. piech wants to know from us is what we perceive to be the historical values of bentley motor cars , '' said michael sanders , a businessman who is also chairman of the bentley club .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` there has been a move in the past 10 years to move bentley into more of a sporting vein , '' sanders said .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` if you ask a school child what kind of car he 'd like when he grows up , it will always be a porsche or a bmw or a ferrari _ they never say bentley .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

but until those new cars are ready , piech appears to be testing the waters for guidance on what will and will not sell with a trademark bentley mesh grill on the front .


Question: what company makes bentley cars ?

`` what we 're doing is offering up an idea of the directions we could go in , '' said john crawford , a spokesman for bentley .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

the playoff appearance is the first since 1991 for the 76ers , who finished with a 28-22 record as iverson -- at six-feet tall -- became the shortest player in nba history to win a scoring title .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

the 76ers offense revolves around iverson , who led the nba in scoring , the shortest player , at 6 feet tall , ever to do so .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

the orlando magic do n't pretend to have the answer to stopping allen iverson .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

`` he 's usually their emotional leader , but he 'll have his hands full chasing allen , '' philadelphia 's eric snow said .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

more often than not , it ended with allen iverson landing on the floor with a thud .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

orlando , fla. _ spend some time chasing allen iverson and come away confused whether you 're famished or nauseated .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

do n't worry , you 're not the only one struggling to find an appetizing balance with allen me-myself -and- iverson .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

`` there are a billion people who love me , but also a billion more that hate me , '' allen iverson said before his team 's eastern conference quarterfinals series game 2 against the orlando magic on tuesday .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

`` allen 's really not someone you can talk to , '' said croce , who calls iverson by his childhood nickname `` bubba chick . ''


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

despite the frenetic waving of white handkerchiefs from the sellout crowd of 20,930 and allen iverson 's 21 points in the first half , the pacers led from the outset and defeated the 76ers , 97-86 .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

`` allen is capable of scoring 50 points , '' he said .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

miller said that when philadelphia 's allen iverson , the league 's leading scorer , went out in the second quarter with a thigh injury , it added to the pacers ' optimism .


Question: how tall is allen iverson ?

`` but then allen returned '' _ after a minute-and-a- half on the bench _ `` and brought them back. ''


Question: what year did south dakota become a state ?

no doubt folks in south dakota are pretty excited each nov. 2 about celebrating the anniversary of their state joining the union in 1889 .


Question: what year did south dakota become a state ?

well , ok , nov. 2 is admission day for north dakota , too , but tell me when you last saw any tv network devote much time to the annual north dakota admission day parade .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

in 1964 , the 31st president of the united states , herbert hoover , died in new york at age 90 .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

1990 - in 12-8 vote , arab heads of state condemn iraqi invasion of kuwait and send pan- arab defense force to saudi arabia ; iraqi president saddam hussein calls on muslims to launch `` holy war '' against foreign troops and `` corrupt '' arab rulers .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

today 's birthdays : count camillo cavour , italian statesman -lrb- 1810-1861 -rrb- ; alexander glazounov , russian composer -lrb- 1865-1936 -rrb- ; herbert hoover , u.s. president -lrb- 1874-1964 -rrb- ; norma shearer , u.s. actress -lrb- 1904-1983 -rrb- .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

former president reagan and his wife , nancy , began a visit to japan sponsored by a media conglomerate .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

president clinton named john podesta as his chief of staff , replacing erskine bowles .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

overlooked in the fracas was the story of another biography of a republican president .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

george nash 's life of herbert hoover took the opposite tack from that of morris : scrupulous , lengthy , objective , scholarly .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

`` the engineer 1874-1914 , '' `` the humanitarian 1914-1917 , '' and `` the master of emergencies 1917-1918 '' had been published , heavily subsidized by their sponsors , the herbert hoover presidential library association .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

another thousand pages had been written on the year 1919 alone , during which hoover served as a kind of one -man marshall plan in charge of us aid to europe and russia at the end of world war i .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

next would come his years as secretary of commerce under warren harding and calvin coolidge , his single term as president during the years in which the great depression settled over the industrial world like an unnatural winter , then the long period of post-presidential influence among conservatives around the world .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

nash even took a year off to write a monograph on hoover and stanford university .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

he 's still there in spirit , in the form of the hoover institution for war , peace and revolution , a peculiar research institute whose great stone tower dominates the leafy campus .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

it was all too much for the iowa businesspersons and hoover friends and family members on the board of the library association in the cheerful little farming community of west branch , iowa , where hoover had been born .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

the president 's grandson , herbert hoover iii , known as pete , turned 71 this year .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

a committee headed by former senator mark hatfield -lrb- r - oregon -rrb- parceled out assignments for the three remaining volumes of the original plan to university-based hoover experts .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

and george nash , whose very visage had come to resemble that of his subject as closely as if he had been hoover 's son , put down what he thought had been his life 's work and started casting about for another task .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

-lrb- what about theodore roosevelt , president from 1901 until 1909 ?


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

nash was a freshly-minted harvard phd in intellectual history when he answered an ad from the friends of the hoover library in 1974 .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

so rather than sign on as a teacher in a university where he did not want to be , nash agreed to write a six-volume life of hoover , the contract extending into the mid-1990s .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

in hoover 's lifetime , busloads of schoolchildren had been delivered annually to the presidential homestead , there to sing the state song to the great man -lrb- `` iowa !


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

nash bore down in iowa on topics as remote from the present day as hoover 's experiences as a mining engineer and his adventures as a young husband in beijing during the boxer rebellion of 1900 .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

as the years rolled on , however _ as reagan gave way to george bush , who in turn was upset after a single term by bill clinton on the strength of a short and mild recession ; after ross perot , pat buchanan , and steve forbes launched an angry revolt _ the hoover biography project began to take on significance and charm .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

how did hoover cope with the strains within the republican party between cosmopolitan corporatists and populist isolationists , beginning in the 1920s ?


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

the hoover library association shared no such lofty motives .


Question: when did president herbert hoover die ?

too bad a similarly generous sponsor could n't have been found for the rest of the hoover project .


Question: how fast does a cheetah run ?


Question: how fast does a cheetah run ?

being at the head of the ecological pyramid , cheetah 's presence in any region is effective for the health of the environment , mohammadi-fazel said , quoted by the official islamic republic news agency .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

nezavisimaya gazeta on the komsomolets nuclear-powered submarine which sank in the norwegian sea five years ago : `` a radiation disaster in the norwegian sea is more than probable .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

moscow ostankino television first channel network in russian at 0840 gmt on 19 february broadcasts an ecological program `` people 's earth , '' which carries a 10-minute feature on the continuing investigation into the sinking of the komsomolets nuclear submarine on 7 april 1989 in the norwegian sea near medvezhiy island .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the author of this book -- the assistant chief designer of the submarine `` komsomolets '' -- offers his interpretation of the tragedy that played itself out in the sea of norway on 7 april 1989 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

from the author : on 7 april 1989 an accident occurred aboard the soviet nuclear- powered submarine `` komsomolets '' in the sea of norway , as a result of which the submarine sank , and a large part of its crew tragically perished .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

d. a. romanov foreword : this work by marine engineer and submarine designer d. a. romanov is devoted to a tragic event in the history of the soviet navy -- the disaster that occurred on 7 april 1989 in the sea of norway with the deep-sea nuclear-powered submarine `` komsomolets '' .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

russian specialists and scientists have proposed a unique method of preserving the submarine komsomolets which sank 7 april 1989 in the norwegian sea approximately 180 miles southeast of bear island .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the nuclear submarine komsomolets has now been lying on the bottom of the norwegian sea for almost five years .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

-lsb- 080329 -rsb- -lsb- klado over video of submarine disappearing under water , shoals of fish , latest pictures of sunken komsomolets submarine -rsb- the soviet nuclear submarine komsomolets caught fire and sank in the norwegian sea 7 april 1989 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the nuclear warheads of the torpedoes in the nuclear-powered submarine komsomolets that sank exactly five years ago in the norwegian sea remain intact .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

russia 's ministry for emergencies plans to buy equipment that will make live telecast possible from the nuclear-powered submarine komsomolets that sunk in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the committee for the conduct of special work -lrb- kopron -rrb- under the russian federation government has totally completed the study of materials associated with the investigation of the nuclear submarine `` komsomolets `` that was lost in the norwegian sea on 7 april 1989 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

russian mchs collegium holds open session on expedition to `` komsomolets '' submarine sinking site in compliance with an rf presidential order and a decree issued by the government of the russian federation , the russian mchs -lsb- emergencies ministry -rsb- is to provide supervision for the period 15 may to 15 august 1994 in the planning of an expedition to the site of the 1989 accidental sinking in the norwegian sea of the `` komsomolets `` nuclear submarine , which has aboard a nuclear reactor and two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

sergey khetagurov , deputy minister for emergency situations , has told an interfax correspondent that 15 june this year the ministry will mount an expedition to the site of the disaster involving the russian nuclear-powered submarine komsomolets , which sank in the norwegian sea in april 1989 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

video shows nuclear submarine in arctic waters , investigating expedition with underwater apparatus , clips and stills of komsomolets on the seabed , interviews with officials `` the komsomolets is not the first nuclear submarine to suffer an accident but it is the first whose nuclear reactor has leaked. ''


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

kopron is being disbanded and so are the mobile structures carrying out active preparations for the conservation of warheads on the komsomolets . ''


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

this book was published with the assistance of the nuclear- powered submarine `` komsomolets '' memorial charity .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

thus the opinion of the workers of ship building industry regarding the causes of the tragedy of the submarine `` komsomolets '' never was brought to the awareness of the people , which is what compelled me to write this book .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the documentary narrative `` the tragedy of the submarine `` komsomolets '' '' can not be considered to be the labor of a single author .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

from the first days the author was actively involved in designing , building and commissioning the submarine `` komsomolets '' , and he participated personally in the most critical trials and practical tests of the specific possibilities of the unique ship as a whole , and of the technical concepts embodied in its design .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

a deep knowledge of all of the circumstances of the tragedy and a high level of technical erudition combined with honesty and principles led the author to his own opinion regarding the causes of the accident aboard the submarine `` komsomolets '' and the subsequent demise of it and its crew of 42 .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

in the book offered here to the reader , d. a. romanov persuasively demonstrates that the main cause of the tragedy in the sea of norway was something other than technical imperfections in the ship 's design or insufficient reliability of the equipment installed aboard the ship -- in this regard the submarine `` komsomolets '' differed favorably from most soviet submarines .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

a. vanin 's poorly trained crew was sent off on that fateful cruise aboard the ill-prepared submarine `` komsomolets '' .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

different hypotheses regarding the causes of the tragedy of the soviet nuclear-powered submarine `` komsomolets '' have been stated in numerous articles published in a number of newspapers and journals by representatives of the navy .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the submarine `` komsomolets '' did not differ in any way from modern submarines currently in operation in terms of the composition of combat and technical resources , including its control systems and its damage control systems .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

in 1988 the submarine was recognized as an outstanding submarine , and it was awarded the name `` komsomolets '' .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

preparation of the submarine `` komsomolets '' for launching


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

the crew according to the detail design , the submarine `` komsomolets '' should have been serviced by highly qualified specialists from among officers and warrant officer technicians .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

this reduction of professional level , `` planned '' by the navy 's elite , affected not only the crew of the submarine `` komsomolets '' but also all other submarines .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

for some reason it was not until after the demise of the submarine `` komsomolets '' that the main naval staff came to understand that `` the crews of ships of this type should be manned only by officers and warrant officers , because compulsory-service seamen and petty officers lack the means to adequately master operation of a submarine in such a short time. '' -lsb- . sup -rsb- 6 -lsb- / -rsb-


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

`` komsomolets '' crew members were questioned in a fault finding manner by the state commission , which also contains representatives of industry .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

a news brief appeared in the 13 may 1989 edition of pravda regarding decoration of the crew of the submarine `` komsomolets '' .


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

as : `` and in the training center where both of the crews had been `` perfected , '' they hastened to write an unfavorable performance report on vanin , the deceased commander of the `` komsomolets '' , second-guessing the usual course of thinking of the supreme leadership : `` criminal negligence '' . ''


Question: what nuclear-powered russian submarine sank in the norwegian sea on april 7 , 1989 ?

but knowing the make-up of the command of the division to which the submarine `` komsomolets '' belonged , i dare to assert that none of the division 's flag- officer specialists were well enough versed in the material of this submarine to rule adequately on performance in damage control problems .