Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...than ever. In parliament, Abel Aganbegyan, one of Gorbachev's favorite economists, asserted that "the economic situation in the country is catastrophic." The leading scapegoat for the troubles is Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose own proposed remedy is a go-slow package that preserves much of the center's control over the economy. Led by Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, some 40,000 demonstrators marched in the capital last week demanding Ryzhkov's resignation. The parliament of the Russian Republic, which accounts for half the Soviet Union's population, seconded the motion in a resolution approved...
While distancing himself from Ryzhkov, Gorbachev has refused to sack him. At one point, Ryzhkov threatened to resign if parliament approved a proposal he could not "believe in." Later the Prime Minister endorsed the idea of giving Gorbachev almost single-handed control of the economy, though that would seriously undermine his own authority...
...Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation was desperate. Losses at the federally insured thrifts whose deposits it guaranteed were running out of control. But neither Congress nor the Reagan-Bush White House was willing in the midst of an election to force an up-front resolution. Danny M. Wall, who oversaw the FSLIC, sought investors from outside the S&L business to pump new capital into the failures but by September had made just 35 deals...
...many who suffer from chronic schizophrenia, the drug clozapine seems to work miracles. One woman who thought she was God and could control the weather was in and out of mental institutions 35 times before starting on the antipsychotic drug. After only a few weeks of treatment, she was free from delusions and making plans to go to college. Clozapine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February, could benefit an estimated 100,000 people...
...called Sandoz's actions "monopolistic" and demanded that the drug company and health officials come to an agreement that would make the drug more accessible to "the patients for whom it is intended." Earlier this month, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas introduced legislation that would reduce Sandoz's control of the blood-monitoring system, which he charged had "taken patient care out of the hands of doctors and put it into the hands of drug manufacturers...