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...shut them down in one hour?" Yet in the asbestos industry alone, 200,000 workers are employed and another 800,000 have been. Among that million workers, a new official of HEW's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimates that there will be 3,000 excess deaths each year for the next 20 or 30 years from cancer of the lung and respiratory disease...
Some officials want to spend the excess Wagnalls money in new fields-study-abroad programs, continuing education for housewives, courses in gardening, consumer awareness and, of course, tax law. To soften the impact of the IRS's 5.5% rule on the fund's assets, Fund Director Jerry W. Neff aims to "change the mixture of our investments to emphasize income more and growth less...
However, Hill says that these estimates were executed only for Harvard's information, to update figures from the Cambridge Assessor's Office. Since all the homes are valued at more than $50,000, and most of them in excess of $75,000, Hill says that Harvard could not realistically offer the homes at market value to the tenants...
Liberal economists challenge the view of Greenspan and other Government policymakers that the current inflation is basically the inevitable hangover from years of excess demand brought on by a federal spending spree, huge budget deficits and easy money. Walter Heller contends that the real trouble is a "one-shot" explosion in food, fuel and raw-commodity prices. Food and fuel accounted for about half the 11.8% rise in the consumer price index in the twelve months through July. The great danger, Heller believes, is that labor will demand huge wage increases to catch up with food and fuel prices...
...Astarita and Thomas Musto, conferred regularly last fall with Dr. Anthony Pisani about the "extent and exact nature of injuries" to several Giants players. On each of four weekends, after discussions with Pisani, the two gamblers, both of them reputed Mafia members, are said to have accepted bets in excess of $100,000 on pro games, including the Giants'. Pisani, who was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony, was not indicted. He resigned from the Giants last month after ten years as a team physician...