Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry's second set of difficulties involves the increasingly tough demands of ecologists, who object to the effect of coal mining on both the air and the land. Leading coal producers are working hard in both areas. Scientists have already developed precipitators that can collect most fly ash inside furnace stacks, and they believe that a solution is in sight for the more serious problem of sulfur-oxide emissions. Another controversy is over strip mining, which accounts for a third of all U.S.-produced coal. In response to criticism of the desolate condition in which stripped areas are usually...
...huge plants' gases and soot will constitute much more pollution than New York or Los Angeles power plants now produce. Each day, according to environmentalists, the complex will emit 1,970 tons of poisonous sulfur dioxide, 1,280 tons of nitrogen oxides and 240 tons of fly ash. Obscuring the nation's clearest skies, the soot would cripple the region's astronomical observatories. Particles would also rain down on six national parks, three national recreation areas, and 28 national monuments-visited last year by 16 million people in search of pristine nature...
...expressions: an adamant sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a psychopathic killer in Charade, an ambulance chaser in The Fortune Cookie, the libidinous suburban husband in A Guide for the Married Man. Of late, his roles have yielded an amusing but unvarying character: the rumpled crank whose shpeesh shoundsh ash if it wash making itsh way around a shigar. Plaza Suite happily puts him in reverse. In Arthur Hiller's rigid transcription of Neil Simon's Broadway one-acters set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Matthau essays not one part but three. Each is unique...
INDUSTRY emits most sulfur oxides and particulates (soot, fly ash, heavy metals). Clean air now means a maximum 80 micrograms of sulfur oxides per cubic meter of air and 75 micrograms p.c.m. of particulates as an annual mean. Both sources emit about the same amounts of nitrogen oxides, which the rules now limit to .05 p.p.m. of air. Both also contribute to photochemical oxidants, which are formed by the action of sunlight on hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxidants. The new rules limit photochemical oxidants to .08 p.p.m. of air. All this could sharply reduce present levels of air pollution. CO levels...
...turned face of the moon and less visible. Manuscript illumination was the most private of all arts, tiny in scale, introverted and forbiddingly difficult to do, a matter of brush strokes one-fiftieth of an inch long and burnished dots of gold no bigger than a flake of cigarette ash. Unlike the grand-scale media of stained glass and fresco -which Michelino also worked in, though little he made has survived-an illuminated manuscript was frequently aimed at an audience of one: the patron who ordered it. Consequently, their owners must have experienced them not only as marvelous and jewel...