Word: antismog
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...other cities were forced to reduce their output. West Berlin was the hardest-hit area. For two days pollution alerts were broadcast hourly on local radio and television stations, and some West Berliners looked like surgeons as they wandered along the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, the city's famed boulevard, wearing antismog masks...
...Monica airport?presumably because it is closer to Malibu, home of his close companion, Singer Linda Ronstadt), Brown explained his attempt to blend liberal and conservative positions. "It's what I call mixing frugality with compassion. The people want fiscal responsibility and openness and experimental government. Anti-red lining, antismog regulations and farm labor laws?all these are compatible with a fairly hard fiscal policy. But just to fund everything in the public sector, I don't see that. The folks don't want...
...Originally, back in 1969, they set out only to fight Los Angeles smog. "I couldn't believe people could really live in that air," says Joyce Koupal. "My first reaction was, 'Why don't they outlaw it?' " The Koupals began collecting signatures for an unsuccessful antismog petition, but when the Federal Government announced its own rules against air pollution, they decided to broaden their campaign. Says Koupal: "We began asking ourselves, 'Why should we go out and collect signatures for just one issue? You might as well go after them all with that same dollar...
...Smog," the second story, spreads another sort of gray symbolically over all Italian life. The narrator is the editor of an antismog magazine called Purification, financed by an industrialist who is one of the guiltiest smog makers. Nothing might appear more hopeless than the quandary of an Italian couple in "The Argentine Ant," whose baby is overrun by marching ants, against whom all antidotes fail. But the minor characters of this crawly little fable -like Captain Brauni with his Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague...
Pollution Patrols. Lee is moving just as fast to curb industrial and marine pollution. Jurong's multitudinous factories are being equipped with antismog devices on their smokestacks, and Singapore Harbor is policed by special patrol boats, armed with cameras, that constantly look for polluting ships. Once the evidence is collected, detergents are immediately spread on the water to absorb oil slicks or other pollutants. Offenders are heavily fined...