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The Chemical Industry: Challenges, Risks, and Rewards
Pages 417-422

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From page 417...
... industries in being able to outcompete other countries in international trade. The chemical industry's past and present successes are due in very large part to the commitment of chemical companies of all sizes to seek competitive advantage through technological advancement.
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From page 418...
... The chemical industry, moreover, is Me leader in industry-sponsored basic research. Preliminary National Science Foundation figures for 1983 show that, of a total of $2 billion of industry-sponsored basic research, the chemical industry accounted for $510 million, or more than 25 percent, well ahead of the second-place electrical equipment industry.
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From page 419...
... It is clear from examination of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists of potentially responsible parties that thousands of companies representing essentially every manufacturing industry in the country have contributed to this problem through decades of dumping, but the public relates it mainly to the chemical industry.
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From page 420...
... It recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. On the subject of hazardous waste sites, the Superfund law obviously should be reauthorized at increased levels of funding, and the chemical industry came out in support of this position early in the debate in 1984.
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From page 421...
... We know that we should not sit back and merely say that it can't happen here. We know that we cannot take refuge in the statistical evidence of the National Safety Council, which shows that workers in the chemical industry have the best safety record of all 42 principal U.S.
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... 3. Universities Associated for Research and Education in Pathology, Health Aspects of the Disposal of Waste Chemicals (New York: Pergamon Press?
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