Word: h2o
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointed personnel to administer the tests in designated rest rooms. After presenting a photo ID, workers will be asked to remove their coats, and their briefcases and purses will be taken from them before they enter the stalls. Water in the toilets must be dyed blue, lest employees substitute H2O for their urine. The temperature of the specimens will be tested within four minutes, to make sure that workers are proffering fresh urine rather than "clean" samples they might have purchased...
...issue of Consumer Reports magazine, which rates Los Angeles' drinking water as "excellent" and says it is for the most part "flawless or nearly flawless." In a test of 50 bottled waters as well as tap water from Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles' H2O ranked with New York's as the best in the urban league and rated better than much of the bottled water that is downed by the city's residents...
...resolution to restore the H2O allotment next year was introduced, provoking a three-hour committee debate, half serious, half silly. "Water is life," intoned Bernards Mudho of Kenya, but Maria Regina Serrao Emerson of Portugal called the debate "frivolous." At meeting's end, after Even Fontaine-Ortiz of Cuba facetiously noted that overtime pay for translators and guards had cost as much as any water saved, the resolution was referred to the General Assembly's plenary session, which tabled it without further thirst- inducing debate...
...H2O, All Things Flow, Creation, Analogies, Music of the Spheres, Sound of One, Spaceborne and Moon 1969--Friday at 8 p.m.; Carpenter Center...
According to Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...