Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state and local governments outdid Congress. Though Maine and Vermont yearn for new industry and jobs, both states chose to risk scaring away developers by enacting new laws that, if enforced, firmly protect their largely unspoiled natural resources. Buffalo, N.Y., started to phase out the sale of leaded gasolines. Akron and New York's Suffolk County spotted a way to combat both the money shortage and water pollution. Instead of building costly new sewerage and treatment plants, they banned the sale of detergents containing phosphates, prime source of water contamination...
Perhaps so, but Agnew is hardly taking himself off the banquet circuit. The very next day, in a speech in Akron to honor William H. Ayres, a Republican who was defeated in November after ten terms in Congress, Agnew opened Round No. 2 in the defense of his campaign role. He firmly disagreed with "the implication that the harsh thrust of partisan debate suddenly in 1970 no longer has a place in American politics," and declared that "division can be constructive...
...next September, all service stations in the city must have at least one pump for low-leaded gas. In 1976, the sale of gas with more than one-half gram of lead per gallon will be prohibited. The goal by Jan. 1, 1980: no leaded gas in Buffalo. Meanwhile, Akron has ordered a ban on the sale of detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Offenders will be slapped with fines ranging from $100 to $300 and jail sentences up to a maximum six months...
...Edwardsville, Ill., site of the championship rounds this year, host Southern Illinois is meeting defending champion St. Louis in the Mid-West regional final. Southern Illinois crushed Cleveland State, 6-0, in the opening round, and St. Louis had no trouble eliminating Akron...
...York City, St. Louis and elsewhere. This year postal employees have gone on strike for the first time in history, city workers have stomped off the job in Cincinnati, and tugboat crewmen and gravediggers have struck in New York. Municipal employees in San Francisco and Atlanta, rubber workers in Akron, and teamsters across the country?all have walked out. In this year's first nine months, the U.S. lost 41.5 million man-days through strikes, up 32% from the equivalent period last year...