Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sprague said Advent stands to save 15 to 20 per cent in labor costs as a result of the move, amounting to about $1.5 million on 400 jobs...
Recently, a Cambridge resident told the Cambridge City Council and state environmental agencies that she had developed an above normal concentration of styrene in her body as a result of her residence's proximity to Advent's Sidney Street plant, which emits polystyrene fumes. The state decided to sue Advent for releasing an "objectionable odor" into the air, Sprague said, but he denied that Advent's use of polystyrene in the manufacturing of giant television screens presents any hazard...
Cambridge residents have frequently picketed the corporation over the styrene emissions. They have also attempted to start a boycott of Advent products...
...Advent has had bad relations with the neighborhood and its relations with the city were not much better. The president [of Advent] was going his own way--he was not going to work with anyone," City Councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 said yesterday...
Retailers in the area contacted yesterday said they did not expect much of a change in Advent prices as a result of the move. "Their product was becoming noncompetitive," Robert Dollinger, assistant manager of Tech-HiFi on Boylston Street said yesterday, referring to Advent component price increases which resulted from increased manufacturing costs. "Now they should be able to hold prices at the present level," he added