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Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bias Or Safety? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

What Cambodia needs most is domestic stability and a place in the international economy. According to The New York Times, Phnom Penh markets are filled with rice and other food, but they have been unable to export such commodities as hardwood, rubber, rice and seafood...

Author: By Susan E. Owen, | Title: Don't Let the Nightmare Return | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

BEFORE HRE can proceed with the construction of the hotel, the plan must still receive the rubber stamp of the Harvard Corporation. We believe the corporation should veto the hotel proposal, but we don't realistically expect it to rectify Spence's mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Disturbing Decision | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...minds of horrified television viewers around the world is the recurrent scene of helmeted policemen lashing black protesters with menacing whips. Admitting that the image problem was a primary concern, the South African government announced last week that police would no longer use the 3-ft.-long hard rubber whips, known as sjamboks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: No More Sjamboks | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...hope for the forests' survival is the growing recognition that they are more valuable when left standing than when cut. Charles Peters of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden recently published the results of a three-year study that calculated the market value of rubber and exotic produce like the Aguaje palm fruit that can be harvested from the Amazonian jungle. The study, which appeared in the British journal Nature, asserts that over time selling these products could yield more than twice the income of either cattle ranching or lumbering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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