Word: tamperings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's apparent lack of concern for the inhabitants of Lowell House is particularly distressing. We have been awakened as early as 9:30 a.m. by tests of the system and little effort has been made to communicate with us about the problem beyond warnings not to tamper with the alarms. Furthermore, every official statement we have read has intimated that somehow we are to blame for the repeated alarms. Fire Protection Engineer David Breen's comment in The Crimson on November 16 was the last straw. He was quoted as suggesting that "the situation would resolve itself once workers...
Efforts to protect the public from the Tylenol killer and his imitators are lumbering along. The FDA last week submitted a proposed regulation on tamper-resistant packaging of over-the-counter drugs to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. The regulation would not specify which of many types of packaging the industry should adopt; it would set a standard for the industry to meet in any way that companies might choose. Estimates are that new packaging will cost the industry between $20 million and $30-million a year and will add anything from a penny to a dime...
...Tamper-resistant containers were hardly a burning issue for American industry before cyanide-spiked Tylenol capsules exposed the horrifying vulnerability of countless consumer products. Since then, however, packaging specialists have been swamped by a tidal wave of demand, and nearly 200 firms stand to reap heady gains from the crisis...
...million), a Philadelphia maker of tamper-resistant packaging and one of the few firms in the industry whose stock is publicly traded. The price of West shares jumped more than $3 in a single day, following reports of the Tylenol deaths, and the volume of trading exploded by more than 6,000%. West stock, which had been selling for around 16 be fore the poisonings, closed last week at 20⅛. Says Robert Campbell, a spokesman for the company: "We've got queries about our products from across the board, not only from over-the-counter-drug packagers...
...professors though devoted a little more planning to the Halloween rites, James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, offered M&M's candy, he said, "since they're tamper-proof...