Word: ammonias
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...coastal city of Ulsan last week, old and new Korea came into symbolic confrontation. The spring mists filtering across the landscape were mixed for the first time with ammonia clouds, and Korean farmers wearing traditional costumes stood side by side with businessmen and government officials in trim, Western-style business suits. All had gathered for the dedication of the Korea Fertilizer Co.'s new urea plant, which, with an annual capacity of 330,000 tons of fertilizer, will be one of the world's largest. Presiding over the ceremonies, suitably enough, was Byung Chull Lee, 57, the plant...
...sympathetic grand jury refused to indict her. Though tear-gas pens are legal in most states, the notable exceptions include New York, Illinois and California, which contain the nation's largest, unsafest cities. New York City even bans water pistols loaded with an eye-stinging chemical like ammonia. Ironically, there is nothing to prevent the purchase of rifles by mail or even at the nearest sporting-goods store...
...dingy cubbyhole on Manhattan's upper West Side, surrounded by towering stacks of music and a massive duplicating machine named Ozalid. Together they make a unique team: Arnie singing an aria from La Bohème while bent over a new score, Ozalid humming contentedly and smelling of ammonia. Yet despite the humble trappings, for the past 25 years Arnstein's office has been the musical clearinghouse for practically every major U.S. composer...
...Williams went down for a six count, got up, and staggered into another Clay right that knocked him flat on his back, out cold. The referee was at the count of five when the bell rang. Williams' handlers dragged him back to his corner, revived him by breaking ammonia capsules under his nose...
...greatest corporate opportunity is in fertilizer-the quickest way to spur the yield from the millions of farms still tilled by horse and hand in underdeveloped countries. In Taiwan. Mobil Oil and Allied Chemical have teamed with a local firm to build a $20 million urea-and-ammonia plant. Esso Chemical Co. is investing $200 million in fertilizer factories in 13 areas as disparate as Aruba and Malaysia. In the Philippines, Esso built a fertilizer plant and sent teams of native salesmen out into the paddies to show suspicious farmers how much more money they could earn by using agricultural...