Word: liquidation
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Wherever they eat, executives claim that the business breakfast is more productive than a long, and often liquid, lunch. While traditional brunch beverages like Bloody Marys and screwdrivers are rare, the corporate breakfast need not be spartan. Some executives prefer such healthy dishes as wheat germ and yogurt, but others indulge in eggs Benedict or Viennese crepes. In Minneapolis kippered herring and whitefish are favorites...
...Liquid Balls...
...outgrowth of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the ban was put in place last November in response to widespread concerns that leaking chemical drums were contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists...
Bertrand I. Halperin, professor of Physics, will receive the 1982 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize today in Dallas. Text for his study of materials near phase transitions, the points at which matters changes from one state--solid, liquid or gaseous--to another...
...drink, though, has not yet caught on strongly at home. Many hard-drinking Irishmen prefer to stick with their traditional whiskies and foaming pints of Guinness Stout. In some pubs the cream liqueurs are called liquid glue. With sales abroad so strong, Gilbeys has scarcely missed the local business...