Word: healthand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Department of Environmental Healthand Safety (EHS) receives five to 10 abestosemergency calls a week, but only 10 percent ofthem end up requiring work, said EHS asbestoscoordinator Nancy Curtin. "A lot of people don'tknow the difference between fiberglass andasbestos," she said...
Congressional aides expect the wholebill--which also covers the Department of Healthand Human Services--to come up against "sometrouble" on the Senate floor because ofcontroversial provisions on low-income housing andabortion
...various administrators develop plans to dealwith the smoking ban, the committee in charge ofoverseeing the University's compliance with thesmoking policy is likely to inspect how well thedepartments follow the law, said Jim Dezieck, theHarvard personnel department's director of healthand fitness. However, Dezieck said there is noprocedure now for such inspections, and that hedid not know what standards would be applied...
...addition, Councilor William H. Walshproposed that two empty floors in Cambridge CityHospital be used as shelter for the homeless. Thehospital has at least 30 vacant beds, but Walsh'ssuggestion has found scant support. On Monday, thehospital administration and Commissioner of Healthand Hospitals Melvin H. Chalfen released a reportdescribing "significant barriers" to the plan...
...uses a direct-sales approach similar to Avon's, Company Founder Mary Kay Ash has concentrated almost entirely for the past 19 years on skin-care products, as opposed to cosmetics-style makeup. Consequently, the firm now finds itself in a timely and profitable mesh with the American healthand-fitness craze. The company has also built a large and loyal female sales force by offering big money to top sales directors ($30,000 to $40,000 a year in bonuses and commissions), along with such incentives as diamond bumblebee brooches and pink Cadillacs...