Word: treatment
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...Orinoco tar pools to be developed as a fuel source. The problem is that Caracas nationalized the petroleum industry 18 months ago and now many firms are wary of risking more capital in Venezuela with its new, highly nationalistic investment rules. As for the question of preferential tariff treatment for Venezuela, eliminated by Congress for all OPEC members after the 1973 oil embargo. Carter promised to do all he could to get Congress to rectify the punitive measure...
...majority opinion, written by Justice Lewis Powell, held that there is nothing in the Social Security Act, which created the Medicaid program in 1965, that requires participating states to provide any specific medical treatment, including abortion...
...Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared they might have trouble protecting him from inmates...
Further, U.S. Steel pledged to spend $70 million to equip the Gary works with new water-pollution-control equipment, and $1 million to pay for research on water-treatment systems and the impact of dissolved solids on Lake Michigan...
Archaeologists and paleontologists trying to ascertain the age of bone, wood and charcoal from ancient sites have long employed a technique called carbon-14 dating. This dating game has its drawbacks: it requires the destruction of a sizable portion of the sample and cannot, without costly and time-consuming treatment, determine the age of any object more than about 40,000 years old. But a new method promises to overcome both obstacles. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Toronto and General lonex Corp. of Ipswich, Mass., is developing a way of dating objects that...