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Culled from a San Diego dump, the trash was selected to represent a typical U.S. garbage can. Catrel will see how its new waste-treatment technology, which reduces garbage to pellets that can then be formed into building materials, will work on American trash. Reason: Catrel hopes to market the process...
...investing in target companies. Arbitragers, who gamble that share prices will rise in value as a proposed merger approaches its conclusion, were left holding huge volumes of so-called deal stocks when the Boesky scandal broke. Those shares took a sharp plunge last week as investors rushed to dump them, leaving the "arbs" with collective losses of $1 billion or more. The arbitrage department at Merrill Lynch, for example, is estimated by competitors to have dropped $20 million to $50 million. "It has been a brutal time for all of us," declared one trader...
North Cambridge residents speaking at city-sponsored hearings recently succeeded in getting the city council to hire an independent consultant to check a controversial former chemical dump for toxicity...
...question: What will become of Hasenfus? Before the trial began, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega hinted that the hapless gunrunner might be pardoned and released by Christmas. But since then some Sandinista militants and officials have taken a tougher stance. Last week Ortega seemed prepared to sidestep the issue and dump the problem of Hasenfus' future on Washington. In an interview with Mexican reporters, Ortega said he was waiting to see if the Reagan Administration would acknowledge responsibility for Hasenfus and his aborted mission...
Gorton had recently been promising voters that "his friend in the White House" was going to eliminate Washington from a list of states that might be saddled with a nuclear dump site. Reagan, however, indicated during his speech in support of Gorton that the state would not get special consideration. Gorton immediately lost his slim lead and never recovered...