Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat to the prosperity of dairy farmers and the wholesome image of "nature's perfect food." The product is bovine somatotropin, a natural protein found in cattle that has been artificially mass-produced in the labs of several pharmaceutical firms. When injected into dairy cows, BST can increase their milk production up to 25%. But would the use of BST create a milk glut that could drive down dairy prices? And would consumers view milk from BST-treated cows as artificial and somehow tainted...
...kill a Government program, why not milk it? That, it seems, was the attitude of some officials who had failed to persuade Congress to stop spending some $200 million a year on fixing up run-down apartments and making them available to the poor with the help of federal rent subsidies. A report by Paul Adams, inspector general of Housing and Urban Development, suggests that the most effective way to get a housing project approved under President Reagan's HUD Secretary, Samuel Pierce, was for the developer to hire a prominent Republican as a "consultant" and pay him a substantial...
...venture with Waste Management to build the country's largest plastic-recycling operation. The facility, which will open in 1990, will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a year. But that will only dent the problem: the U.S. annually produces 1.6 billion lbs. of plastic soda, milk and water bottles, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York City to Cleveland...
...that, purifying plastic is no easy trick. Six months ago, for example, Continental Can began making detergent bottles from recycled milk containers. All went well until workers began noticing a faint aroma of milk in the final product. After a few months of tinkering, they finally managed to remove the odor. But that sort of problem is par for the course in the new recycling game...
...cash. The money will come in handy at a time when international pharmaceutical giants are scrambling to join forces. Hoffmann-La Roche, whose strong suit is prescription products, still smarts from its failure last year to acquire New York City-based Sterling Drug, the maker of Bayer aspirin, Phillips milk of magnesia and other popular over-the-counter brands. Sterling spurned the Hoffmann-La Roche offer and sold out to Eastman Kodak instead. "We wanted primarily to establish ourselves in the American over-the-counter market," recalls Hoffmann-La Roche Chairman Fritz Gerber, 60, whose company gets a third...