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...issue is more than $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages claimed by 65 plaintiffs, following a train wreck in Sturgeon, Mo., on the night of Jan. 10, 1979. A tank car on a Norfolk & Western freight broke a coupling and derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of orthochlorophenol. Sturgeon was evacuated for two days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because...
...personal concern for the hostages spill over into the geopolitical strategy of reaching out to Iran...
...Iranians were intended as a diplomatic overture: "My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not." Reagan attributed the deterioration of the initiative to his deep compassion. "I let my personal concern for the hostages spill over into the geopolitical strategy of + reaching out to Iran," he explained. "I asked so many questions about the hostages' welfare that I didn't ask enough about the specifics of the Iran plan...
...rescue. Says David Davies of Minnesota's 3M company, which produces about half of the world's compact discs for computers: "Without the CD music market, data CDs would not exist. The hardware would be too expensive." The intense competition to produce music CDs, he explains, will spill over to the CD data field, forcing down the costs of both discs and their computer drives. Donald McLagan, a Lotus vice president, agrees. "Every time Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder sell a compact disc," he says, "it's good news for the data side...
...unity of mankind. Permit me to say a few words on this subject. Participants in the forum have mentioned in their speeches the disaster at Chernobyl, an example of the tragic interaction of equipment failure and human error. Nevertheless, the aversion people rightly feel for military applications must not spill over to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mankind cannot do without nuclear power. We must find a solution to the safety problem that will rule out the possibility of another Chernobyl resulting from human error, failure to follow instructions, design defects or technical malfunctions...