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Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation

by Andrea Peacock

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Publisher Comments:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.

Synopsis:

A sequel to Civil Action-W.R. Grace company, owners of a vermiculite mine in that small Montana town, never told the miners what it knew: there was asbestos in the vermiculite, and the asbestos was destroying the miners lungs.
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Table of Contents

Dying — Almost paradise — The family business — Mountain of grace — Anatomy of silence — The watchdogs take a nap — Wages of greed — A daughter's revenge — Reckoning.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781555663193
Subtitle:
Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation
Author:
Peacock, Andrea
Publisher:
Johnson Books
Location:
Boulder
Subject:
Business Ethics
Subject:
Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine
Subject:
Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations
Subject:
Mining
Subject:
Work-Related Health
Subject:
Asbestos
Subject:
Asbestosis.
Subject:
Aluminum silicates.
Subject:
Vermiculite.
Subject:
Corporate & Business History - General
Subject:
United States - State & Local - West
Series Volume:
156-158
Publication Date:
May 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9.00x6.42x.67 in. .94 lbs.
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