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While the maximum concentration of TMH allowed by DEP is one hundred parts per billion, daily readings in Cambridge since 1988 have shown a steady increase from 107 parts per billion 196 parts per billion, said Tony B. Abruzese, a spokesperson...
...sodium level in Cambridge water is also well above the 20 milligrams per liter maximum limit set by DEP, but Abruzese said the difference did not pose a health problem...
...vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
Through the week, as Azerbaijanis put up ferocious resistance, blockading roads and railways and sabotaging waterlines, the number of troops and police cadets swelled to 29,000. At first, government forces were told to exercise "maximum restraint." But when Azerbaijani militants turned on the soldiers, troops were instructed to fire in self-defense and to protect army weapons caches. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said the conflict was "almost civil...
...Social Security levy is scrambling Washington's political alignments. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York liberal, proposes to roll back the Social Security tax from the current 7.65% to 6.55% over the next two years, a plan that would save $600 for workers paying the maximum amount. Moynihan would return the retirement system to a pay-as-you-go basis rather than piling up surpluses ($52 billion in 1989) that are diverted to finance other Government programs and cover up the full size of the federal deficit...