Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...justifies its action on the ground that it constitutes a safety program. At the targeted plants, which produce acoustical ceiling tiles and insulation products, workers are exposed to potentially hazardous dust from mineral fibers. Research suggests the risk of contracting lung diseases because of this dust is greater for smokers than nonsmokers. USG is not planning to ban smoking at its headquarters or other facilities where workers do not face the dust hazard...
...young girls. Her job is to teach them to be ladies, not women, in a landowner's household where grandmama sorts her old photos into two piles: "alive" and "dead." The family may as well be dead. They disdain their own culture and borrow Britain's; they ignore the dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity and passion, takes the girls' handsome older brother to bed, the family must dismiss...
Closest to home -- in the Milky Way itself -- Cornell and Caltech astronomers have found what may be the early stages in the formation of a new solar system, showing for the first time that a dust disk surrounding a sun- size star orbits the star in an orderly fashion. Such disks, initially found in the early 1980s, have been touted as the precursors of planetary systems. This discovery makes the claim a notch less speculative and suggests that stars with planets may be quite common...
...Baptist ministers -- Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left and Pat Robertson on the Republican right -- also casts conventional scenarios in doubt. But one thing is certain: more candidates are out campaigning earlier than ever in the belief that late starters are likely to be left in the dust...
...Shoot, Jim! Shoot!" For 25 years that insistent cry--half command, half appeal--has been heard around the world, or wherever cameras have been set up for a Merchant-Ivory production. From India (Heat and Dust) to Boston (The Bostonians) to Florence (A Room with a View), Ismail Merchant, the producer part of the team, has been pleading with James Ivory, his directing partner, please, please to hurry up: time is short and money is shorter. So constant was the refrain on the English sets of their newest picture, Maurice, that when filming ended last month the cast...