Word: copper
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Officials at G.D. Searle must have watched with concern three years ago when a raft of lawsuits forced bankruptcy on A.H. Robins, maker of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth-control device. With good reason: from 1974 to 1986 Searle sold in the U.S. the Copper-7, an IUD that, like the Dalkon Shield, has been suspected of causing serious illnesses or injuries in some users...
...part of Belgium's bedrock. The company was founded by King William I of the Netherlands in 1822, eight years before Belgium became an independent country. As the country's first central bank, La Generale printed its own paper currency until 1850. By the early 1900s, it was financing copper mining in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and the building of China's Peking- Hankow railway. With its headquarters in a stately turn-of-the-century building situated between the royal palace and the Belgian Parliament, La Generale today employs nearly 100,000 workers and holds interests...
Although legislation was introduced in Congress last fall, so far the campaign for a hard dollar remains a shiny dream. "We're talking strictly public inertia," admits Jim Benfield, a lobbyist for the Coin Coalition, which includes copper interests and convenience stores. About half a billion of the last dollar-coin attempt, the forlorn Susan B. Anthony dollar that was issued eight years ago, collect dust in vaults across the country...
...church, we create a different world," says Eugeniusz Kliminski, 53, a priest in Radom, an industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. Day by day he watches Our Lady, Queen of Apostles, rising in his parish. When the semicircular structure is finished, topped by a soaring burnished-copper roof, it will be a glittering exception to Radom's gloomy skyline. But the work is going slowly. Money is in short supply, despite contributions from as far away as France and Italy. At the present rate, Queen of Apostles will probably not be completed before Christmas 1994. That may seem like...
...perennial struggles beween Arizona's copper unions and its union- busting managements have influenced Babbitt's ideas on what he calls "workplace democracy." He believes government should encourage profit sharing and worker ownership of companies and end tax breaks for "companies like General Motors, which lay off thousands of workers while paying big bonuses to executives...