Word: acidizing
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...book, Martins describes his first work, Calcium Light Night, which was set to music by Charles Ives, as "sharp and acid." It was also young and sexy. Thereafter he made several small ballets, all at least lively, some a bit close to the exercise book. In the past year he has taken a big step forward. In The Magic Flute, a comic folktale ballet (not related to Mozart's opera), Martins produced an earthy, unpretentious romp. Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, made for last June's Stravinsky festival, recalls the sharp, acidulous Calcium, but it is more complex...
...even as a basis for negotiations. Relations with European allies, a high Reagan priority, were badly damaged by the Administration's ill-considered sanctions against the Soviet natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe. They are improving now that the sanctions have been lifted, but face an acid test next year, when several NATO countries are scheduled to station U.S.-made intermediate-range nuclear missiles on their soil, over the furious objections of domestic antinuclear movements...
With an increasing number of areas classified by scientists as "sensitive" to acid stress in both North America and Europe, some environmental experts fear that an even more alarming and often irreversible deterioration may take place before corrective measures are taken. The concern of environmentalists is that industrialists will continue to use delaying tactics to put off costly capital improvements necessary to reduce emissions. Says Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition, an amalgam of environmentalist groups: "The costs [for cleaning up emissions] aren't trivial. But neither is the damage. A nation that can afford...
...Administration sympathizes with the Midwestern utilities, but has modestly stepped up its funding for acid-rain research, from $18 million in 1982 to $22 million in 1983. It is the only area outside the defense budget where an increase is planned. The money is beginning to produce results. New research in the U.S. and West Germany strongly suggests that acid rain combines with traces of toxic metals emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning plants to leach away nutrients that sustain trees. In addition, scientists believe the mixture of acid rain and aluminum trace elements in the soil...
...says Chicago Meteorologist Walter Lyons. "We may have to read the last 20% just to make sure there's not a surprise ending." Lyons contends, along with some spokesmen for major U.S. utilities, that waiting for more research is not "going to make that much difference." Because the acid-rain problem involves so many different disciplines and so much poorly understood data, he says, "we're like a lot of blind men grabbing at an elephant...