Word: containers
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...remaining molecules, forming an oxygen-atom triplet. The result: a layer, from six to 30 miles up, of ozone-enriched air. Once formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing the chlorine they contain. The chlorine is a catalyst, breaking ozone apart without itself being affected. At present, the ozone layer lets enough ultraviolet through to cause sunburn and, in some people, skin cancer. More ultraviolet would increase the effect: the Environmental Protection Agency estimates a 1% drop in global ozone could cause 20,000 additional...
Lawyers for the two sides said they disagree onthe importance of the papers which contain reviewsof tenure candidates by the Business School'stenure committee. The missing documents includethe mid-1970s and continue at least until theearly 1980s, Lawson said, but it is unclear if allpapers during the period were destroyed...
Michaelson said yesterday that the papers inquestion do not contain discussions of the Jacksondecision itself, and said that Harvard was beingasked to provide marginally relevant information."There's a point at which these pretrial discoverydemands can be a fishing expedition," he said."The net is being stretched very wide by Ms.Jackson...
...prices and to make its semiconductor market more open to foreign manufacturers. But the pact has stirred sharp controversy over its side effects. By forcing chip prices in the U.S. dramatically upward, critics say, the pact could severely harm the competitive ability of other high-tech industries whose products contain semiconductors...
Also, the instructions sent Tuesday night to chief U.S. negotiator Max M. Kampelman after a Pentagon review did not contain any call for removing U.S. and Soviet intermediaterange missiles in Europe...