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There was a time in the mid-'70s when wood-stove bores were a serious environmental hazard at parties, the way bullfight bores had been three decades before, sports-car bores were a bit after that and college-tuition bores are now. Some self-pleased gasbag was always bombinating lengthily about his new airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear. (Yes, suburban trendies, from South Carolina to north of Boston, would actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological...
While most economists think the U.S. will be able to putter along without a recession for at least another year, they see the hazard as increasingly difficult to avoid. Says Jerry Jordan, chief economist at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles: "Things are going to get very dicey in 1989. It will be the worst of all worlds." Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors: "This is the first time in perhaps six years that the word recession is in my vocabulary, and I don't take the word lightly. I see one starting late...
Connolly called on Harvard to support aproposed RJR shareholder resolution that wouldestablish an independent panel to declare smokinga health hazard, curtail the company's tobaccopromotion and advertising, and force RJR to getout of the tobacco business by the year...
...They called it a hazard to the track," said Jon Wilner, Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. "People started taping toast to their bodies, so the administration finally changed its policy. They said the toast was okay, but no bagels were to be allowed...
...lawsuit, the workers complain that a panoply of ailments -- rashes, aches and pains, nausea, memory loss -- is being caused by unknown toxic agents in Stealth materials. Lockheed vice president John Brizendine insists that "we have seen nothing to indicate the materials we work with . . . pose a health hazard, providing proper procedures are followed." Nonetheless, two teams of federal investigators are poking around the Burbank plant...