Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial exposure may result in a different asbestos-caused disease, severe scarring of the lungs that causes a pulmonary fibrosis called, appropriately enough, asbestosis. This disease ultimately kills eight of every 100 asbestos workers, an incidence so high that almost all states have made it legally compensible under their workmen's compensation programs...
...Lowell House O-entry, workmen have cleared York's former room and are now washing the soot from the walls. York will be moving to South House...
...Rotterdam's Europoort, oil business goes on as usual. Giant tankers glide across the busy harbor to docks where workmen connect the ships to shiny umbilical pipes that drain their heavy cargoes of crude. Near by, five gigantic refineries crank out prodigious quantities of fuel for the thirsty North European market. The only abnormal thing about the scene is that it is not supposed to be happening. Like three other nations,* The Netherlands is still officially being embargoed by the Arab oil states that last month ended their five-month ban on exports...
Local authorities finally acted in the name of private property. Police and firemen succeeded in coaxing Mrs. Stebbins down after seven days, and workmen then quickly felled the enormous beech. Though the tree was lost, Mrs. Stebbins claimed a kind of nuisance-factor victory: "I think we've made a point. People may now think twice about cutting down a beautiful thing like that...
...TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city's 5,000 French...