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...road. Considering the volume of this production and movement, fatal accidents are few, just eight deaths last year. One reason, contends the chemical industry, is its elaborate and expensive safety precautions. Says Bruce Karrh, a physician who is also vice president for safety, health and environmental affairs for Du Pont: "We began by manufacturing explosives, and we have retained our extreme sensitivity for the question of safety." The attentiveness has paid off. The chemical industry's safety record in 1983 showed 5.2 reported occupational injuries per 100 workers, vs. a 7.5 average for all manufacturing...
...Tokyo food dealer, he went to Switzerland at age 16 to learn the art of French cuisine. Years later in New York, Kobayashi ("Masa" to his friends) transformed Le Plaisir into one of the city's most prestigious restaurants. In 1981 he became master chef at the Auberge du Soleil in California's Napa Valley. Two years later, he opened Masa's in San Francisco, a restaurant so popular there was a 21-day wait for reservations...
...record total of 65 women had filed for House seats, 20 of them as incumbents. The general trend of voters to stick with their district legislators had no gender gap; all 20 women were reelected. But few of the challengers were successful. Perhaps the most prominent loser was Elise du Pont, 48, wife of Delaware's Republican Governor, Pierre S. du Pont IV. Her campaign suffered when she came across as rude and whiny in a debate with Incumbent Democrat Thomas Carper, 37. A fiscal conservative, Carper used his folksy manner and personal grass-roots approach...
...Republicans who won bids to a second term, both as expected, were Indiana's Robert D. Orr, 66, and New Hampshire's John H. Sununu, 45. In Delaware, retiring Pierre S. du Font's G.O.P. seat passed to a protege, Lieutenant Governor Michael N. Castle, 45. The grandee of West Virginia politics, two-term Governor Arch A. Moore, 61, hammered out a third victory, following an eight-year hiatus filled by Democrat Jay Rockefeller. Democrats were also replaced by Republicans in Utah, where House Speaker Norman H. Bangerter, 51, coasted to victory, and in North Carolina, where...
...fashion world in the early 1970s when he introduced a line of ultra-feminine dresses. When the fashions appeared, everyone else was selling sportswear and jeans, but the carefully tailored garments were quickly snapped up by Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and other tony department stores. The onetime Du Pont accountant was on his way. Sales of Nipon's dresses (price: $100 to $2,000) this year are expected to reach $60 million, and he has collected a clutch of celebrity customers, including Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Walters, Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan...