Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filed damage suits of $250,000 against the Muslims for trespassing. Unofficial harassment was even worse. Six cows on the farm were shot and killed. Ray Wyatt, the white Pell City automobile dealer who sold the acreage to the Muslims, began receiving a dozen threatening phone calls a day. Acid was poured on cars in his lot. Then, just before Christmas, his office was ravaged by fire...
...Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...
...surprisingly low $3 billion is all it would take if plants and factories were required to install waste-treatment facilities sufficient to meet existing water standards. A total of only $2 billion would pay for cooling towers to prevent thermal pollution, and $6 billion would bring sediment and acid mine drainage under control. The price of eliminating industrially caused air pollution is somewhat higher because the job must be done on a regular basis. Estimates are that it would cost $600 million a year to curb the sulfur dioxide emitted from power plants and another $100 million annually to clean...
...Equally pressing is the problem of permanent storage for lethal radioactive wastes contained in spent reactor fuel elements. The practice now is to dissolve the fuel rods in nitric acid, then store the liquid in vats underground. Already the AEC has more than 80 million gallons of this lethal liquid (which includes wastes from weapons production) In tanks that must be constantly cooled and scrupulously maintained for hundreds of years before the radioactivity is spent. The AEC is now perfecting ways to solidify the wastes to permit storage in underground caverns. Even so, the growth of nuclear power could make...
...Billboard's "Top LP" chart and they have sold close to a million records, this does not mean that The Band will be everybody's cup of tea. But for those who take to them?musicians, college kids who have grown tired of the predictable blast-furnace intensity of acid rock, and an evergrowing segment of the young?The Band stirs amazement and glee. Perhaps their most important accolade is the approval of scores of fellow musicians, who say simply: "The Band is where...