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...worst-performers list by turning away from electronic games in favor of dolls like those in its deliriously successful Masters of the Universe line. Rollins Environmental Services, a Wilmington, Del., firm that handles industrial waste, benefited from stricter federal rules involving the disposal of such hazardous chemicals as polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. Shares in Cowles Broadcasting, the Daytona Beach, Fla., chain of TV stations, shot up after the company agreed to be acquired by H & C Communications...
...BEEF ALERT. Michigan farmers, who last year lost thousands of cattle to poisoning when a fire retardant called polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) was accidentally mixed with feed, were faced with a new nightmare. Alarmed by the open sores developing on his cattle and the growing number of stillborn calves, Dairy Farmer George LeMunyon of Cedar Springs called in investigators. They discovered that cattle in his herd, and those on at least seven other farms in the state, have been ingesting a wood preservative called pentachlorophenol (PCP)-probably when the animals licked the sides of their feed bins. Because the preservative contains...
Asahi's test was in three parts. A general-knowledge section contained questions on such varied subjects as the Japanese constitution, dollar convertibility, ancient Japanese literature, West Germany's Ostpolitik and the chemical formula for polychlorinated biphenyl. There were five separate items on the proper reading of difficult Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese language. Next, candidates had to translate into Japanese newspaper articles in one of five languages: English, French, German, Chinese or Russian. Finally, a composition segment called for a concise news article on "my student life...
Applied research can often turn migraines into moneymakers. In the manufacture of chlorinated biphenyl, widely used for insecticides, Monsanto's Anniston, Ala., plant was swamped by a useless fluid residue. But when researchers found a new product, HB-40, that uses the waste fluid to give greater flexibility to plastics, Monsanto salvaged twelve million pounds of stored-up residue, started making the onetime waste product...
...purity which can be maintained by ventilation and which will ensure freedom of the workers from possible injury. The simple compound, trichlornapthalene can be present up to 10 milksops per cubic meter of air without ill effects. The more complex compounds, tetrachlornaphthalene, pentachlornap thalene, hexachloranapthalene and chlorinated biphenyl, can be present at safely only to the extend of half a milligram per cubic meter...
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