Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councilor James E. Burn of the Roxbury section of Boston said Tierney's campaign has remained low key on all of the issues pertinent to the Black sections of Boston. He said Flynn's major success has been in the issue of housing...
...Burn and Daniel Burke, Secretary of the Treasury of Boston's School Board and teacher in the Roxbury school district, feel that education is the third key issue for these areas. Burke said Flynn's success among his Black constituency is in part due to the appointment of Laval Wilson, who is the first Black superintendent of Boston schools...
Spectacle is one of 12 locations being considered for a plant that would burn or compost sludge from Boston area sewage. The "island" is actually a mound of trash and dirt formed more than 50 years ago by city garbage dumping...
...increasing reliance on self-regulation by companies has obvious shortcomings. At a John Morrell meat-packing plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., inspectors found 69 record-keeping infractions in a company log. On a list of injuries that supposedly resulted in no lost workdays: an amputation and a chemical burn. OSHA proposed a $690,000 fine on Morrell in April. After meat-packer IBP learned that its records would be inspected last January, OSHA alleges, the company assembled 50 employees to revise its logs. IBP, which is fighting the case, has been charged with 1,038 instances of underreporting injuries...
...South Korea's $2,274. The North's GNP rose last year by 1% to 4%, to about $20 billion, compared with a 12.5% increase, to about $95 billion, in the South. While South Korea pumps out Hyundai * automobiles and Daewoo computer equipment, some North Koreans drive trucks that burn wood for fuel and toil over equally outmoded factory equipment. Food is rationed...