Word: raritan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying fish and contaminated mollusks and crustaceans. Patches of water that have been almost totally depleted of oxygen, known as dead zones, are proliferating. As many as 1 million fluke and flounder were killed earlier this summer when they became trapped in anoxic water in New Jersey's Raritan Bay. Another huge dead zone, 300 miles long and ten miles wide, is adrift in the Gulf of Mexico...
...gases, serve as reliable indicators of the presence of some 50 contaminants. The news is not good. Coastal areas with dense populations and a long history of industrial discharge show the highest levels of pollution. Among the worst, according to Charles Ehler of NOAA: Boston Harbor, the Hudson River-Raritan estuary on the New Jersey coast, San Diego harbor and Washington's Puget Sound...
Intrigued by Kligman's early results, the drug's manufacturer, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. of Raritan, N.J., began sponsoring clinical trials around the country. One method used to assess the drug: researchers make molds of facial skin with dental modeling plastic, then scrutinize the impressions with an imaging analyzer of the kind used by NASA to examine the moon's surface. The company claims that results so far have been positive and plans to submit its findings next year to the Food and Drug Administration. Although it is already approved for treating acne, Retin-A cannot be promoted as an anti...
Lightweight eights-men--1, Vesper Boat Club (Pa.), 14:56.18; 2, St. Catharines R.C. (Canada); 3, Raritan Valley...
...companies go even farther. The Hewlett-Packard site in Loveland is one example, the underground vault constructed in Rhode Island by a consortium of banks to store electronic data during a nuclear war is a another, and the subterranean vault run for AT&T by Vital Records, Inc, in Raritan N.J. is a third. Isn't that comforting; even after a nuclear war, you'll still get your telephone bill...