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Bosso, C. J. Pesticides and Politics The Life Cycle of a Public Issue University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, PA,... 

In 1863, the British Parliament passed the Alkali Act, which forced the LeBlanc factories to reclaim 95 percent of the hydrochloric acid gas that they produced. Angus Smith, the Alkali Inspector assigned to enforce the law, demonstrated that industrial towns suffered from higher sulfate levels than did the countryside. When Angus Smith also coined the term acid rain, air pollution became a public issue. By the 1870s, Leblanc factories emitted less than 0.1 percent of the hydrochloric acid gas they produced the rest was reclaimed and sold. 

The utilities are those provided by facilities outside the specific plant boundaries. These costs may be obtained from publications issued by the Federal Power Commission4 or Chemical Week s plant site issue. The amounts of each needed can be obtained from the energy balance and/or the unit ratio material balance. 

EU Directives. Details of all EU Directives on food and related subjects, including food additives, can be found in the publication issued three time per annum by the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA), Avenue des Arts 43, B-1040 Brussels. E-mail ciaa ciaa.be web site http //www.ciaa.be... 

Produces original investigative journalism about significant public issues its investigation of lobbying by pharmaceutical companies was highly critical of the power of the industry. 

Refs l)D.J.Hudges, "The Nuclear Reactor as a Research Instrument , SciAm 189, No 2, 23 9 (1953) 2)R.A.Beth C.Lasky, "The Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron , Science 128, No 3336, 1393 1401(1958) 3)D.Puleston, Head, Information Division, "Brookhaven National Laboratory-Present and Future Growth (June 1961) 4)Numerous booklets pamphlets available to the public, issued by the Information Division of the Directors Office, Brookhaven National Laboratory... 

Chemistry and the Environment is designed to intentionally motivate and engage students by connecting basic chemical principles and civic engagement through public issues such as air quality, ozone depletion,... 

The cost of health care became a hot public issue in the United States in the early 1990s. It swept an unknown, onetime university president named Harris Wofford into the Senate from Pennsylvania in 1991 and helped elect Bill Clinton president in 1992. Health insurance premiums were shooting up by double digits every year, some 37 million Americans didn t even have insurance, and if things kept on as they were, experts predicted, medical care would devour more than one-fourth of the gross national product by 2030. It was the rare case of an issue that seemed to unite both consumers, who couldn t afford to pay for health care, and business, which ended up being billed extra to pick up the unpaid charges of the uninsured. Some sort of national health care plan was a sure bet. 

G3. N. Hagihara, M. Kumada, and R, Okawara, Handbook of Organometallic Compounds. Benjamin, New York, 1968, Sections dealing with transition metal compounds on pp. 766-776 and 822-931. This book is an English translation of a Japanese publication, issued by Asakura, Tokyo, and is a noncritical list of compo unds. 

Another useful publication issued by the Chemical Abstracts Service is Directions for Abstractors and Section Editors of Chemical Abstracts This 52-page, indexed booklet contains much information about the nature, style, and form of abstracts and about nomenclature, spelling, forms, and abbreviations. While these directions are intended primarily for the producers and editors of abstracts, they have proved their helpfulness to users of abstracts and to chemical writing in general. They contain special sections devoted to abstracting (1) organic papers and (2) patents. Copies can be obtained from the Chemical Abstracts Service for 25 cents each. 

Catalog of Public Documents. This is a dictionary catalog including all government publications issued between March 3, 1893, and December 31, 1940. Although discontinued because of its tremendous cost and limited use, the Documents Catalog can be consulted at most libraries. 

Catalog of United States Census Publications. Issued quarterly, this catalog contains detailed descriptions of the contents of the reports issued during the period covered, as well as a geographic and a subject index. Monthly supplements... 

At the present time, the Bureau of Mines has available a book entitled List of Publications Issued by the Bureau of Mines from July I, 1910, to Jan. 1, 1960. It describes the many thousands of technical publications of the bureau and is complete with subject and author indexes, prices, and availability of all publications listed. It is available from GPO for 4.25. 

Regular technical publications issued by suppliers and sent gratis to consumers (one illustrated in Figure 1)... 

This is a monthly publication issued free to all members of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). It is published by SPE at 14 Fairfield Drive, Brookfield Center, CT 06805. The emphasis is on practical aspects of plastics engineering. Coverage frequently includes additives, materials, design, processing, machinery, and announcements. One section covers new literature. Dates of forthcoming events are also given. 

The Monthly Catalog (15, issued by the Superintendent of Documents, is the most comprehensive periodical issued, listing publications of the various government agencies. The catalog contains both technical and nontechnical publications issued.I)y the various departments and agencies of the U. S. Government. It is indexed annually. 

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