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...Everyone is waiting with bated breath. His information will be absolutely critical," says Myron Uman, executive secretary of the environmental studies board of the National Research Council. Anderson's findings are expected to provide crucial information for the government on a host of environmental questions, including limits on aerosol cans...
Prospective buyers and sellers must now go to court to haggle over prices on about 5,700 lots in 39 tracts of land, most of them owned by the Bishop estate. Myron Thompson, a trustee of the Bishop estate, calls the process perhaps "the greatest rip-off of this nation in the 20th century...
...they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought against the Massachusetts lottery a decade ago. "But 900,000 people lose, most of whom could not afford to play to begin with...
...Incremental improvements in the work-place really aren't the issue. If you want to change the South African system you have to work through legislative activity," Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Myron Fiering, an ACSR faculty representative, said after the report was released...
When it was first staged in 1935, the play exploded in the faces of complacent audiences who regarded the theater as a means of escape from the Depression. Odets overturned every theatrical bromide. In the crucible of the Berger apartment, Bessie the mother is a tyrannical presence; Myron the father is an ineffectual bumbler. Their heroine daughter Hennie becomes pregnant, foists her child off on an unsuspecting immigrant husband, then runs off with a small-time racketeer. The grandfather spouts Marxist shibboleths ("Abolish private property"). The youngest Berger, Ralph, obviously a mouthpiece for the author, yearns to break free from...