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1 same insulators, one of the risks of their trade was a
2 disease of asbestosis?
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3 A Of course. They had no substitute. They 4 had to have something to insulate high temperature
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6 BY MR. SMITH: 7 Q You agreed with that, but my question was,
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8 do you agree that you had known since the 1940s that
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9 the asbestos workers who were using the asbestos
10 pipecovering materials were at risk of getting
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11 asbestosis?
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12 A No, you mean what would I have done about
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14 Q Not what you would have done. You had known
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15 that that risk existed?
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16 A Yeah, I think so.
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17 Q And that was one that you knew during the
18 time that you were an assistant to the president of
19 Owens-Corning when you were at Toledo, correct?
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20 A Right.
21 Q And that knowledge then, is consistent with