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Then one day last month, county water testers in North Carolina, who use Perrier's purity in their labs to gauge local water quality, found that the French product was contaminated with excessive levels of benzene, a solvent used, among other things, to make Styrofoam. The Food and Drug Administration ordered random tests and found similar benzene levels in 13 bottles. FDA officials noted that there was not much danger. Drinking two small bottles of contaminated Perrier a day, they estimated, would increase one's lifetime risk of cancer by only one in a million...
These graduate programs could help keep Radcliffe financially solvent. Alumnae donations are going to decrease steadily as women graduates identify more and more with Harvard than with Radcliffe. As a full-fledged research institution, however, Radcliffe could be in a better position to apply for grants and similar sorts of funds...
...describe himself as "all name and no money." Thrift is a virtue for someone trying to build his own business without capital. Bush became known as a shrewd dealmaker who could attract investors without incurring debt. As the energy business flourished in the late '70s, he built a small, solvent outfit of his own. He also married Laura Welch, a librarian, just three months after they met. She explains the courtship's brevity by saying, "We were both 30, and had had a lot of single years. We were glad to find each other...
BOSTON--The House of Representatives in a budget-busting move last week approved a measure that would grant $50 million to Massachusetts hospitals struggling to remain financially solvent one year after the passage of the state's universal health care...
...civilians last year, the U.S. joined other nations in condemning chemical warfare. But last week it became clear that at least one American company has helped spread the deadly weapons. After Customs Service agents accused Baltimore-based Alcolac International, Inc., of illegally shipping hundreds of tons of thiodiglycol, a solvent that can be used in making mustard gas, the firm agreed to plead guilty to violating export laws. Prosecutors believe the chemical shipments eventually arrived in Iraq and Iran...