Word: kaiser
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From the beginnings of history and literature, human beings have also invoked the sun. In rejecting peace offers from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great explained, "Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters." And in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, speaking of his nation, declared, "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that...
...Normally you would expect a new transit line to reduce traffic," said Stephen H. Kaiser, an independent traffic engineer who has opposed the project. "But this would increase traffic because it serves as a stimulation for development...
...year's team finished its campaign with a record of 17-7. Six of the players from that team were lost to graduation, making this year's squad much younger and less experienced. Hole setter Bill Wolff, goalie Don Bensen, sprinter Fred Scherrer, and speedsters Ben Elizondo and Peter Kaiser are gone...
More alarming was a June report of a survey of 1,600 women who had become pregnant since 1984. Researchers from the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland found that expectant mothers who spent 20 or more hours a week at terminals were twice as likely to suffer a miscarriage during the first trimester as non-VDT users. The difference in birth defects was not statistically significant, however. Job-related stress and poor working conditions cannot be ruled out as factors, cautions the study's director, Dr. Edmund Van Brunt, but he believes his research indicates an association between...
...Suffolk County legislature, the correlation proved decisive. Said Michael D'Andre, a Republican who switched his vote to support the bill after hearing about the Kaiser-Permanente study: "That was the real clincher for me. Would you gamble with your child?" Even so, the law almost did not pass. When legislators first approved the bill last May, several businesses, including highly computerized New York Telephone and Northwest Airlines, threatened to relocate out of the county or limit expansion. As a result, County Executive Patrick Halpin, a onetime supporter of the measure, vetoed it. Last week, the legislators overrode his decision...