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...University officials said last week that even if the exposed insulation contained asbestos, the holes union official Marie Kenney described probable would not present a health hazard either to union members working in the kitchen or students eating food prepared there...
AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS of deliberation, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended this month that the Corporation divest its $20 million of stock in cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, Inc. Yet despite the ACSR's complaints against Philip Morris--which include the unique magnitude of the health hazard constituted by cigarette smoking, the inherent rather than potential harmfulness of cigarettes, and the active promotion through advertising of smoking-a Crimson undergraduate poll revealed that half of those surveyed felt Harvard should retain its tobacco holdings...
...however, there is the interview known as a hatchet job: a familiar hazard show business that was extended in the 1960s to politics by the New Journalists. Among its techniques are posing embarrassing questions either to get an offguard answer or, failing that, to describe the subject's evasive tics and mannerisms. Hatchet jobs survive, among other places, in the Style section of the Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims...
...unique magnitude of the health hazard constituted by cigarette smoking...
...highway rated poor represents more than a safety hazard. It slows traffic and beats up the vehicles that use it. The Highway Administration has found that operating costs for an average car climb 35% when it uses routes rated poor rather than good...