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Sprague said Advent stands to save 15 to 20 per cent in labor costs as a result of the move, amounting to about $1.5 million on 400 jobs...
Recently, a Cambridge resident told the Cambridge City Council and state environmental agencies that she had developed an above normal concentration of styrene in her body as a result of her residence's proximity to Advent's Sidney Street plant, which emits polystyrene fumes. The state decided to sue Advent for releasing an "objectionable odor" into the air, Sprague said, but he denied that Advent's use of polystyrene in the manufacturing of giant television screens presents any hazard...
...lines are what Gilroy has not provided, and the film's failure to be better than mediocre is the clear result of his slovenliness. - John Skow
Farmers and other country folk who live in seismically active areas have long insisted that animals often act strangely before a quake. Scientists' traditional skepticism about these reports has begun to erode, partly as a result of the work of China's "barefoot seismologists." These field workers have used observations of every kind-including changes in the level, temperature, color and smell of well water, and even the behavior of pandas in zoos-to make successful predictions of impending temblors...
...press had to play catch-up in Iran. The Shah himself has long been on the grand tour of editors, anchormen, roving correspondents. But after the New York Times closed down its bureau in February 1977, there wasn't one American reporter based in Tehran. The result has been what correspondents call "parachuting" into a place, arriving like firemen after a fire is visibly raging...