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...soon followed. Unimation, founded in 1959, was a robotics pioneer. Its first product was an $18,000 Unimate machine used by General Motors to load forged dies at a New Jersey auto-assembly plant. As recently as 1981, Unimation made 45% of all robots sold in the U.S. Another setback for robotics will take place next month, when GE plans to fold its $4 million robotmaking plant in Plymouth, Fla., idling 118 workers...
...time the battleground was the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Justices decreed that a Louisiana law requiring that creationism be taught along with evolution in the public schools was unconstitutional. The 7-to-2 decision, strongly bolstering prior rulings maintaining the wall separating church and state, was a major setback for Fundamentalist Christians...
...setback stemmed from an accounting change that put aside $1.1 billion in case the bank's Latin American debtors start defaulting on $7.3 billion in loans. This dose of preventive medicine, prompted by archrival Citicorp's similar move, may eventually strengthen BankAmerica. But it could force the company to sell off some major assets, including the Seattle-based Seafirst bank, acquired...
...young industry's setback is likely to be short lived, however. Genentech is expected to win FDA authorization for t-PA, perhaps within a year or so. Says Robert Kupor, an industry analyst with the Seattle-based Cable, Howse & Ragen brokerage firm: "It's great stuff, and there's no doubt it will ultimately be approved." Once that happens, experts expect to see a $1 billion-a-year market for clot-dissolving drugs...
...third setback for the government, the Supreme Court issued a ruling highly critical of Shin Bet, the domestic security service that only six months earlier had been cited for improprieties in the deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The court ordered former Lieutenant Azat Napso, 32, released immediately from prison, where he had spent 7 1/2 years on espionage and treason charges that were brought by Shin Bet but later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef...