Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefcases and little market niches , in the U.S. The battery-powered machines, when moved slowly down a newspaper column or across a passage in a book, can instantly produce a copy on a strip of paper about 1 3/4-in. to 3 1/4-in. wide. They use miniaturized thermal technology to transfer images onto the special heat-sensitive paper, which costs about $2 for a 33-ft. roll...
...chemicals are used to make silicon wafers into microchips. Yet the clean rooms may be anything but. Last week AT&T disclosed that 15 pregnant employees who worked in those production areas had been warned about a sharply increased risk of miscarriage. When the company "strongly recommended" that they transfer to new jobs, at least until after they had given birth, all complied...
...group of 744 women and found a somber correlation. Pregnant women working where nitric and sulfuric acids were used to engrave circuitry patterns on silicon wafers experienced a miscarriage rate of 39%, vs. the national average of roughly 20%. Even though it has long allowed pregnant workers to transfer from such areas, Digital says, its study is inconclusive. "We have the data," says Spokesman Jeff Gibson, "but we have no way of drawing any causal inferences from them...
...corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next thing Jack knows, he is driving the firm's hearse to a local soup kitchen and picking up a Roman Catholic nun who will oversee the transfer of a body from the Carville hospital back to New Orleans...
...struggle, Winnie Mandela remains defiant and determined. "The black man does not have the word reform in his vocabulary," she says. "Blacks in this country are talking about the transition of power to the majority. The government will not release Mandela because he will negotiate only on a transfer of power. The Afrikaner is very far from accepting that...