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Barely pausing for breath, Smith has directed a far-reaching corporate reorganization and has been snapping up high-tech companies that make everything from industrial robots to computer software for artificial intelligence. Prior to last week's agreement, GM's boldest acquisition was the $2.55 billion 1984 purchase of Electronic...
When Terry Fox, who lost a leg to cancer, started a 1980 run across Canada to raise money for research, no one was more profoundly affected than Steve Fonyo, a boy from Vernon, B.C., who had also lost a leg to the disease. Fox raised more than $20 million before...
The fire was the culmination of a drama that had long been fraught with danger -- and even the possibility of disaster. For more than a year the mostly black middle-class neighborhood residents had been pressing the city to act against Move. Founded in 1972 by a former handyman who...
The controversy over saccharin, which is produced by Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, began in 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration linked extremely large doses of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory animals. As a result, the FDA proposed that the use of saccharin be outlawed. Congress thwarted...
Despite the congressional action, saccharin is expected to continue losing sales to aspartame, an artificial sweetener manufactured by G.D. Searle and sold under the trade names NutraSweet and Equal. Although more expensive than saccharin, aspartame is preferred by many people because it tastes more like sugar. Aspartame sales reached $585...