Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most China analysts have been expecting Peking to name Teng Hsiao-p'ing, Chou's hand-picked First Vice Premier, as his successor. Most surprisingly, the Chinese leadership last week passed over Teng and appointed a relative unknown as Acting Premier, pending eventual approval by the rubber stamp National People's Congress. He is Hua Kuo-feng, 56, Minister of Public Security and No. 6-ranking Vice Premier (among the twelve...
...cartoonists who can turn out hilarious conservative commentary. Paul Szep, 33, a Canadian who joined the Boston Globe a decade ago, won the Pulitzer Prize for his Watergate cartoons, particularly the one in which John Mitchell, paddling away from a sinking ship in a rubber raft, says to Nixon: "I've decided not to tell you about the alleged ship-wreck...
...absorbed through the skin, should be handled with care. The warning seems to have gone largely unheeded. Gilbert insists that neither he nor his fellow workers were ever told that Kepone could be hazardous. Unaware of the danger, many of the employees did not bother to wear the rubber gloves they had been issued. Others ate their lunches off tables covered with Kepone dust. Says Gilbert: "Nobody said this stuff was dangerous. I was told it was not harmful...
Wearing surgical masks and rubber gloves, they meticulously analyze the garbage thrown out by a representative sample of Tucson households...
...bigger threat is the possibility of a new wage-price spiral. Only 2.5 million workers were covered by contracts that expired in 1975, but 4.4 million will have major contracts coming up next year, including negotiations in four major industries: autos, trucking, electrical equipment and rubber. Workers' purchasing power has eroded over the past two years because wage boosts have not kept pace with price hikes. Between January 1973 and July 1975, the consumer price index rose 27.1%, but average hourly earnings of workers in nonagricultural jobs increased only...