Word: urea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liked making urea--dried piss," joked DiAntonio...
...middleman for cash. In one of the biggest of these accords, Occidental Petroleum and the Soviet Union have a 20-year, $20 billion agreement that calls, in part, for the annual exchange of 1 million tons of American superphosphoric acid fertilizer for 4 million tons of Soviet ammonia, urea and potash...
DEATH REVEALED. Hans Krebs, 81, 1953 Nobel co-prizewinning biochemist who discovered the ways in which food is turned into energy; on Nov. 22; in Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle-later named the Krebs cycle-in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle...
...Nancy Steorts, has called for an improved Government-business relationship. Says she: "Cooperation with industry will replace the adversary relationship of the past." Karen Burstein, chairman of the New York State consumer protection board, says that the government is retreating from taking action on some potentially harmful products like urea formaldehyde, a home insulation component that is feared to be a possible carcinogen. Says she: "Formerly the CPSC would have banned it or mandated warning labels...
...from the federal Energy Department budget that pay for consumer advocates at utility hearings. The Wisconsin legislature set up a private citizen's utility board to protect citizens' interests. The group is authorized to include membership appeals with power companies' bills. And Massachusetts has banned urea formaldehyde insulation without waiting for federal agencies...