Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes the only way to tell one cosmetic from the other is by the price tag. Competing products use many of the same ingredients, and what the customer buys is often the mystique and the prestige, as well as color or scent. Lipsticks are basically made of waxes, oils, fragrance and color, although 31 ingredients go into Revlon's Raspberry and only 23 into Maybelline's Toasted Brick. Perfumes are costly in part because of small quantities of exceptionally expensive natural oils. Among some of the exceptionally prized, the prices per lb. run: jasmine $4,091, oeillette...
...Sulphur Emissions Charge, the first attempt in this country to tag charges on emissions with the hope of providing companies with financial incentives to install clean-up devices, has been awaiting comment by the Secretary of the Interior for the past year and a half, while he considers its potential ramificiations for the Clean...
...that the costs of regulation are inflated by businessmen. They also claim that such calculations fail to take into account the hidden costs of dirty and dangerous production and do not allow for the social and invisible economic benefits of regulations. How, they ask, can anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust poisoning or asbestos-caused cancers? Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, in support of stern safety and health regulations to protect workers: "A relaxation will increase...
...bizarre and motley flotilla played tag last week in the frigid northern waters off Britain's Orkney Islands. Leading the chase was the 120-ft, red-and-white-hulled vessel Kvitungen, carrying six expert Norwegian seal hunters to and fro between half a dozen uninhabited islands. Snapping at their heels was the 500-ton trawler Rainbow Warrior, crewed by 14 militant ecologists. Bringing up the rear were three boatloads of eager journalists, with reinforcements overhead in helicopters and light aircraft. At stake in the curious nautical exercise were the lives of some 6,000 generally inoffensive members...
Radcliffe probably won't have much trouble finding something to do with all that money. The Observatory Hill Athletic Complex near the Quad is finally under construction, but Radcliffe still has a ways to go to raise the $2 million price tag on the building...