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Researchers do not know how dangerous the PCB threat is, partly because an increase in the incidence of ill effects caused by the chemicals might take a ^ long time to show up. As a precaution, the Government has been moving to mop up the PCB mess. In 1979 Congress banned the production, sale and distribution of PCBs. Companies were permitted to keep using equipment that already contained the chemicals, as long as the machinery was carefully sealed. As the equipment wears out, owners must deposit it at federally approved toxic-waste disposal sites...
...trade gap improves, but the budget summiteers push a deadline. -- Layoffs and low morale at Texas Air. -- A PCB mop...
...Council, the Soviet Union has long been one of the U.N.'s pickier dues payers. Moscow has consistently refused to ante up for special operations that it opposed politically, starting with a peacekeeping force at the Suez Canal in 1956. But last week the Soviets announced that they will mop up their red ink, paying a total of $197 million in outstanding debts owed for peacekeeping operations in the Middle East dating back to 1975. Moscow's check will erase its current IOUs, but not its historical ones. In 1973 the U.N. ceased billing the Soviets for some $67 million...
...middle of the fourth quarter, Restic cleared his bench, sending in substitutes to mop up the rout...
What you see is a compact-model candidate, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million...