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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This was done even though Government scientists had not fully studied the likely consequences of seawater cooling, which environmentalists claim is harmful to sea life. The utilities rushed to begin construction; the companies have now spent $400 million on the project, on the theory that the more they build, the harder the plant will be to stop. Meanwhile, company lawyers sought a permanent exemption from the cooling-tower requirement. This involved nine months of public hearings and deliberation by the EPA'S Boston regional office. Finally, in November 1976, EPA Regional Administrator John McGlennon ruled that the ocean tunnel...
Jack Riseman, a spokesman for one of the citizen's groups opposing the construction, said yesterday, "We just feel that giving them permission to do this will just make them want to build more...
...imposing man with the build of a football player and the command of a general strides onstage in the high school auditorium. Immediately, the audience falls silent. He captures the students expertly, first soothing them with his soft, sensuous voice, then whipping them into a frenzy with a quickening cadence. "We can be as good in academics as in athletics," he shouts, "but we've got to believe we are somebody. Repeat after me, "I am somebody.' " Hundreds of teenagers rise to their feet, chanting, "I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be on welfare...
...next day interest began to build in the final as a soccer game, and not simply as the termination of a huge fiesta. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, naturally, and scalpers were selling seats for $300 or more. Movie theaters where closed-circuit color broadcasts would be offered were mobbed. What the world could expect to see-and had seen far too little of in this World Cup-was the collision of two rough, occasionally brilliant young teams that had played hesitant soccer in the early rounds but at the end had committed themselves to attack...
...Association, flew to Washington to huddle with Robert Strauss, the celebrated Texas shooter of the bull. McDougal made this case to Carter's No. 1 inflation fighter: beef prices have gone up about as far as they will go. So, just let the cattleman alone, and he will build up his herds. But if more imports come in, the rancher may well reduce his herds still more-and prices, after a short dip, will climb through the early 1980s...