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...Research. Lignasan BLP is dissolved in water and pumped into a tree's circulatory system through holes drilled into the tree at or just below the root "flare" at ground level. In experiments conducted on 7,500 trees last year and an anticipated 100,000 elms this summer by the Elm Research Institute of Harrisville, N.H., early test results indicate that Lignasan is 99% effective when used preventively-before the disease strikes-on healthy trees. But many plant scientists refuse to endorse the product until they know more about proper dosages, duration of protection and the chemical...
...seeking his economic goals, and Reagan's rhetoric admits of no compromise. In early 1975, for example, Ford accepted a swelling budget deficit as the price of ending the nation's worst postwar recession. In Reagan's view, budget deficits are something close to the root of all economic evil. Again, Ford last December reluctantly signed a bill that cut oil prices immediately and continued controls for seven years, though they will gradually be lifted. Reagan has never ceased to excoriate Ford for that act. In his view, all controls should have been ended immediately...
Ralph Nader's "victory" [June 21] is not a victory for the rest of the flying public, who will eventually pay the $50,061 because the consumer always eventually pays for everything. The ruling does not go to the root of the problem. Airlines overbook because of no-shows, and no-shows occur because the practice is not penalized...
...later, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO testified to the Senate Finance Committee that the transfer of production overseas is making the United States "a nation of hamburger stands ... a country stripped of industrial capacity and meaningful work ... a service economy ... a nation busily buying and selling cheeseburgers and root beer floats...
...lives. It was also a high-risk gamble that could embroil the Syrians in a major confrontation with most of the Palestinian movement. Yet this new attempt at a Pax Syriana may just force the Lebanese to discuss their differences long enough to permit a political compromise to take root. At week's end talks were under way, fueling hopes for an eventual peaceful solution...