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...radioactive materials used by hospitals, it does not have a permanent repository capable of handling spent fuel rods. Attempts to create such a facility at Hanford were halted when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State of Washington and the Yakima Indians all joined together to object because of uncertainties about underground water movement...
...Beanpot, Bucyk will once again echo through the Garden. The Chief will be there, but he will sit in the stands. The object of his attention--nephew Randy, the captain of the Northeastern Huskies...
Shiffer also underscores Sharon's frequent and close meetings with Bashir Gemayel, the Christian Maronite warlord who was assassinated only nine days before his scheduled inauguration as Lebanese President in September 1982. In Shiffer's account, Bashir asks Sharon if Israel would object to the Lebanese sending in bulldozers to flatten "the built-up areas," four weeks before the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. Sharon's reply: "This is not our business...
Companies currently being sought in the merger sweepstakes include many well-known names. Among them is Faberge, a cosmetics and fragrance firm that has become the object of a lively bidding war. McGregor Corp., a men's and boys' clothing maker, is offering $32 a share for Faberge, or $2 more than has so far been bid by anyone else. If the McGregor proposal succeeds, Faberge would become part of Meshulam Riklis's Rapid-American empire, which owns majority control of McGregor. Merger mania has had prospective targets searching for effective defenders (see box), and has inspired...
...resemble nothing so much as the imaginative creation of an inventive youngster with an Erector set. It will consist of sleek metal cylinders, winglike panels, sinewy aluminum beams and long, cranelike arms. But in the eyes of President Reagan, there is nothing really far out about the bizarre-looking object. If he has his way, it will be circling the earth by the early 1990s...