Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unitversity is the area's largest college producer of low-level wastes, Interex spokesman Joseph Rosenberg explains. In 1978, Interex hauled away about 3500 30-gallon barrels of Harvard-generated liquid sludge, for about $50 a barrel. Now, says Jacob A. Shapiro of the University's office of environmental health and safety, Harvard is paying about twice that to haul its wastes all the way to Washington. Rosenberg says "it is very, very likely that costs have doubled or tripled" in the last year. Downriver at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), officials spent about...
...Science and Technology Policy, the number of wastes defined as "hazardous" will expand. The proposed EPA rules, says Coddington, are "written with an industrial setting in mind." The typical industry, he says, deals with tens of thousand of gallons of only a few hazardous materials. "But in a health laboratory," he continues, "you have an infinite variety but in smaller amounts." Industries, moreover, carefully control the number of people exposed to hazardous materials. The EPA's required paperwork alone might wreak havoc; "where you've got a huge number of people encountering toxic or carcinogenic substances, record-keeping problems...
Aside from these concerns, Harvard's major concern is financial. John I. Clemons, safety engineer in the medical area office of environmental health and safety, estimates that about 30 to 40 per cent of Harvard's medical research produces some kind of hazardous waste. "At the moment there is no problem," Clemons says. But he quickly adds that the EPA regulations may generate substantial problems, including cutbacks in research projects. The proposed regulations would apply to infectious wastes--those generated by hospitals. A study by Clemons' office indicates that, if the EPA regulations are implemented as proposed, a Harvard-affiliated...
...want to spend any more money than the President, though he would spend it differently: less for defense, more for domestic social programs. He said he would remove both the new aircraft carrier and the MX missile from the fiscal 1980 budget. Though he remained committed to his national health insurance plan, he claimed that it would cost an additional $28.6 billion a year, while his critics contended that the price tag would be closer to $45 billion. Kennedy also favored eliminating what he calls "tax expenditures"; that is, tax breaks for various groups. He would abolish deductions for such...
Despite his job, Carter's blood pressure is a steady 110-115/70. Says Lukash: "He is in excellent health. I wish I could take credit...