Word: generalized
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...also causes asbestosis, a choking stiffening of the lungs, and it has been linked to lung cancer. Yet nearly all cases of asbestos- related disease have been confined to people who mined the mineral or those who worked with it in manufacturing or installation jobs. As for the general public, says Mossman, the level of exposure even in buildings with flaking asbestos is no more than 1% of the level deemed safe for workers...
...penalty was attacked as too light by critics, who argued that some of the bank's branches should have been shut down. But the bank agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in other cases. Among them: the drug- trafficking trial of General Manuel Noriega, which is to begin in March in Miami. The ousted Panamanian strongman reportedly controlled $23 million in accounts at the Luxembourg bank's branches...
...Scottsdale, Ariz., National Rifle Association President Joe Foss knows exactly where he stands on the question of gun control. A highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, a former Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League, and a retired brigadier general, Foss speaks with the relish of a man with unyielding convictions. "I say all guns are good guns," he pronounces. "There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period...
Arif Yunusov, a spokesperson for the independent Social Democratic Group political organization, said Baku was paralyzed today by a general strike...
Dubinyak told the Krasnaya Zvezda military daily there was still intermittent gunfire in the city but gave no details. In a statement broadcast on Radio Moscow, the general said "there are forces here with an interest in maintaining tension at the highest level...