Word: dumpings
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...less harsh in France than in some other parts of Europe, the cold snap there caused a death toll of at least 31. One potential French victim of the cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...most Americans, trucking desiccated Christmas trees to the dump marks the slow beginning of a new year. But for the class of 1988, it is only 13 months before voters in Iowa begin to choose convention delegates, and 1987 seems all too short. While Washington wonders whether Ronald Reagan can recover from Iranscam, those who hope to succeed him are organizing for what promises to be the least predictable, most wide-open campaign in at least a generation...
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...