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...pending suit filed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) against Columbia University, accusing the school of mistreatment of laboratory animals, may halt much of the animal research performed at the New York school...
...free to obtain funding--perhaps with the help of the college--and do the hundreds of hours of research to put together another booklet. And, of course, they should feel free to criticize this booklet. They have no right to assume, however, that its distribution should come to a halt because it did not involve the majority of minority students...
...thanks to a roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose Sarney announced a "life-and-death struggle" to halt the spiral by freezing wages and prices for a year and virtually abolishing the country's cost of living adjustments in such things as rents and contracts...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...
...negotiations with the unions on accepting computer technology and reducing staff. Among other things, he insisted on a legally binding contract, a novelty for the print unions (agreements with British employers are traditionally bound by "trust and honor"). However, as London newspaper owners well know, those pacts do not halt costly stoppages. Last year the Fleet Street papers lost nearly 96 million copies in union disputes...