Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vegas. There were no witnesses' signatures. The will assigned one quarter of Hughes' assets (about $600 million before taxes and executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California. Eight different groups of beneficiaries got one-sixteenth shares (about $150 million each): the Mormon church; William Lummis, a cousin in Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice...
While the ships wait at sea, they in effect serve as floating warehouses. That cost Iran a cool $1 billion in port surcharges last year. Perishable goods are lost. One freighter unloaded its cargo of rice, only to find that it had cooked into a giant pilaf in the steamy holds...
There was little concern about PCBs until 1968, when an estimated 1,600 Japanese came down with a baffling and painful ailment labeled Yusho (rice-oil poisoning). Their symptoms-skin eruptions, vomiting, inflamed eyes and palsy -occurred after they had eaten rice oil that had been accidentally contaminated by PCBs. Japan promptly banned almost all use of the compounds, even in electrical equipment, and suddenly everyone was wary of their presence. In 1970 the Campbell Soup Co. found high PCB levels in 146,000 New York State chickens destined for its products, and the birds-which probably picked...
...opened the scoring in the second inning when Rick Burleson's RBI double dropped into short centerfield between three Royals. Rico Petrocelli drove in Jim Rice in the fourth for Boston's second tally...
...Rice pulled the Sox within one with a two-run double in the eighth, but K.C. got three more in the ninth and held...