Word: useful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pini said the city could either raise rent ceilings to pay for the repairs or use the money from the fees to subsidize improvements for low-income tenants...
...sends hourly workers on morale-building field trips to see how customers use the company's goods. One such team visited a local TV studio that uses 3M magnetic videotape...
...cities right away, although they knew of the danger, and 3) the Soviet nuclear establishment had known that the Chernobyl design was unsafe. "I believe we must launch an investigation and learn who was responsible," says Alexei Yablokov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources in the Congress of People's Deputies, the new Soviet legislature...
Federal officials have never been sure how much cocaine is consumed in the U.S., but the conventional estimate has been 100 tons annually. Since agents have captured nearly that much already this year and seizures are generally ^ considered to represent only a small proportion of total supply, cocaine use could be several times that volume. But speculation about a far bigger than expected U.S. cocaine trade is only one of the theories that attempt to explain the recent huge seizures and their failure to increase prices. Some experts contend that the Colombian government's campaign against the drug lords...
...tritium in question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported...