Word: solvently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty of companies have collapsed, leading to a very human desire on the part of investors to recover their money in any way possible. Says Harris Amhowitz, general counsel at Coopers & Lybrand: "When a company fails, accountants are usually the only solvent party left standing...
...dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...
...response, the Senate passes its own version of debt extension, but too late to prevent the Treasury from raiding Social Security investments late Friday to keep the Government solvent. It is apparent that Congress can manage this self-imposed crisis no better than its annual battles to reduce spending. Lawmakers have turned the balanced-budget battle into a bizarre game of political one-upmanship...
...estimate, 96% of all hazardous wastes never leave the property of the companies that produced them. A number of companies have made some headway in curbing a generation of the poisons. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., for example, cut its volume of toxic wastes in half, partly by switching from solvent-based glues to water-based glues in its manufacture of adhesive tape. It also burns nearly all of the remaining wastes in a huge incinerator at Cottage Grove, Minn. "In the past five years, there has been a tremendous change in the attitude of the chemical industry about hazardous waste...
Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent...