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...TIME: Your Vice President once said that a woman should not be President. He also helped block your bid for the presidency in 1999. How well do you think you can work with Hamzah Haz? Megawati: I'm always optimistic and look to the future. That was a story from the past. The Vice President said in his inauguration speech that he wanted to work together with me as President. I am sure that the processes we undertake to get this country out of its many crises will work. As I said in my inauguration speech, what is needed...
...came to work this morning to find the building closed off. There were Haz-Mat [the hazardous materials unit], fire people and HUPD outside," said a medical researcher at the Mudd Building...
Their zany Olympic Trials, a Chick Haz ard Mystery is set in the other Los Ange les Olympics, the Games of 1932, and revolves around a murder. The details change with each night's audience, which is expected to furnish not only the name of the victim but the clues as well. The dexterous company provides the rest in an outrageously low and dippy style...
...Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-and gave the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) the authority to enforce compliance with asbestos standards-that things began to happen. In 1971 a NIOSH team visited Tyler, confirmed the danger of the dust levels, and emphasized the extraordinary haz ard. The team pointed out many examples of poor hygiene practices: the company lunchroom was close to the production area and workers were using compressed-air hoses to blow dust off each other (and thus spreading it about), and the company was selling burlap bags contaminated with asbestos. NIOSH promptly...
...stunned by rumors that Lloyd's underwriters were canceling coverage for hijackings-reports that Lloyd's vigorously denied. What was happening was that Lloyd's members were taking advantage of their options to raise "war risk" insurance premiums by 25% to 100% because of the increasing haz ards. Such action comes at a particularly awkward time for U.S. airlines. Pan Am, for example, lost $19.6 million in the first half of 1970, and higher "war risk" premiums might add millions of dollars to its operating costs without increasing revenues...