OTHER NEWS - Jan. 30, 1996
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The Senate approved law professor Isaac Hunt Jr. to fill a seat on the Securities and Exchange Commission. . . . John E. Tull Jr., an Arkansas farmer and former rice futures trader, was elected acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. . . . Black & Decker subsidiary Price-Pfister Inc. will pay $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of California and two environmental groups alleging that faucets leached lead into water at higher levels than California’s standard.
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