Word: wednesday
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Since Barsamian only found out what was happening last Tuesday evening, his employees had not discovered until Wednesday that they would be out of their jobs...
...nuclear weapons? That was exactly how Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was hoping the question would be posed when he rushed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to a vote in the Senate last week. And with both sides conceding the treaty lacked the votes to pass, senators were negotiating Wednesday to reschedule next Tuesday's vote. "The White House was confident that given a normal legislative process with weeks of hearings and plenty of advance warning, it could muster the votes to win this one," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "On the other hand, Senator Lott knew...
...barn door is finally being bolted. On Wednesday, more than 100 Japanese police officers swooped down on the nuclear facility near Tokyo that was the scene last week of the country's worst-ever atomic accident. Meanwhile, the government was reportedly planning to revoke the license of the JCO company, which runs the Tokaimura plant. The criminal investigation stems from the fact that the accident ? reportedly caused by eight times the normal amount of uranium being added to a chemical mix ? occurred when workers were following a safety manual illegally revised by the company to allow the transfer of nuclear...
Come up to where the cancer is. That would be China, according to a study released Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that 2 million people a year will be dying of smoking-related illnesses in China 20 years from now. Based on projections developed from illness patterns in the West, the study's authors predict that 50 million of China's 320 million smokers will die prematurely as a result of their habit. Equally disturbing, the surveys found that most Chinese smokers were woefully uneducated about the health risks posed by smoking, with only...
Could this be the real Clinton legacy - fiddling while Congress self-immolates? The debate over patients? rights hit the Hill with a fury Wednesday as three separate bills - each allowing patients to sue their HMOs for uncovered medical costs, but in varying degrees - added to the general legislative tangle that has been the story of Capitol Hill this summer and fall. Things got complicated Tuesday when House GOP leaders did an about-face, gun-control-style, and sought to undercut a popular right-to-sue bill with a watered-down version of their own. That bill had Democratic backing...