Word: canale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other dumps. Only a few miles away, near a barren field called the Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may also be feeding the chemical into nearby rivers; and from Maine to Arkansas to California and Oregon, dioxin has left a trail of sickness, fetal miscarriages and death wherever it has entered the environment...
...most civil rights legislation and sponsored clean air and water bills that created extensive new Government regulations. Today he is a staunch opponent of Big Government and excessive regulation. In foreign policy issues, Baker has taken independent and indeed courageous stands. After much soul searching, he backed the Panama Canal treaties...
...many others make it spectacularly Down in New Orleans, the skyline bordering on the storied French Quarter is being reshaped by a trim and handsome outsider, Joseph Canizaro The company that carries his name has just opened a 32-floor office tower, the first of many buildings in Ms Canal Place complex astride the roiling Mississippi Early in 1 980, dirt will fly for a 25-story structure and three-level retail mall next door Canizaro is a millionaire who surveys the city, which he is doing much to change, from an office chocked with multicolored hard hats...
...lots in Gulfport, Miss. Then he went to New Orleans, the main chance. While the International Trade Mart was under construction, he marched up all 26 stories to the top. "That walk up was the toughest work I ever did. Rough." He looked out and spotted the site where Canal Place is rising today. He determined to rebuild, the scruffy riverfront. Canizaro...
...grew richer by buying and developing other properties, financed mostly by banks in Baton Rouge and New York. Several years ago he traded some land to the city in exchange for the Canal Place site. He got financing from New York and Iran's Bank Omran. After the Shah fell, Canizaro bought out the Iranians. Now he is negotiating with French financiers to become partners Already the first Canal Place building promises to return a profit of $1 5 million a year. Major tenants are moving in: South Central Bell, Brooks Brothers Coopers & Lybrand. For the next buildings, Canizaro...