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...state claims that Cambridge violated a regulation requiring community water systems to notify the public if the level of a contaminant known as trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water exceeds a certain level...
...Japanese have now surpassed the Dutch as the second greatest foreign holders of U.S. property. The British are No. 1, yet Japanese investments create the largest public stir, in part because Japan is the greater economic rival -- and in part because some racially insensitive Americans apply different standards to European and Asian investment. Japanese direct investment in U.S. companies and real estate increased from $35.2 billion in 1987 to $53.4 billion last year, a gain of 52%. British investment climbed from $79.7 billion to $101.9 billion over the same period, for a 27.9% increase...
Ortega's orchestration of their meeting and his stunning announcement about ending the Nicaraguan cease-fire brought a flare of public anger from Bush the following day. "It was instantly, gratuitously offensive, and I felt I had to draw the line," said Bush last week. "Ortega abused the hospitality of the other nations. He showed himself as a small person...
...that the quantity of tritium involved was sufficient, when combined with other ingredients, to build a small nuclear weapon. The U.S. Department of Energy, sensitive to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, last July halted U.S. sales of the gas and moved quickly to explain the losses and assure the public that the missing tritium had not ended up in the hands of a terrorist state...
...little too quickly, it seems. According to a report by the Energy Department's inspector general made public last week, the DOE not only failed to locate the missing tritium but never adequately addressed the possibility that the gas was stolen. In a sharply worded statement that raises questions about what exactly the Government has been doing for the past five months, the inspector general said that earlier explanations attributing the losses to procedural errors or mismeasurements were based more on "speculation than fact." More than a year after the first shortfalls occurred, the report charges, "basic questions concerning...