Word: fresh
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...anxiety surrounding asbestos is based on its deadliness in massive doses, but many researchers contend that low levels of exposure are not necessarily hazardous. Since the mineral occurs naturally, trace amounts can often be found in fresh air and water. Yet the EPA has said that the only guaranteed safe amount of airborne asbestos is zero...
More and more, such delectable morsels are coming to light as interest in laser grows (distributors predict the laser market will double in sales to $80 million by the end of 1989). But the historical fillips are more than curiosities and commercial come-ons. They make movies resonate with fresh possibilities and new impact...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...
...looks like a farm-implements salesman in his brown uniform, but make no mistake: Don Tyson, 58, is the king of America's poultry producers. His Springdale, Ark., company slaughters more than 15 million chickens a week, turning out 1,300 products ranging from fresh broilers to frozen nuggets. His desire to rule an even bigger roost has kept the feathers flying in the chicken industry since last October, when Tyson (1988 revenues: $2 billion) offered $894 million for the No. 3 producer, Memphis-based Holly Farms...
National service -- the image of a vast civilian army of fresh-faced young people embarking on a crusade of good works -- has always held romantic appeal for adults safely beyond draft age. Utopian visionary Edward Bellamy originally broached the notion more than a century ago. Philosopher William James alluded to it in his famous 1910 essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War." Franklin Roosevelt in 1943 spoke of a postwar America where young adults would make a "year's contribution of service to the Government." At the height of the Viet Nam buildup, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service...