Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referendum questions, the candidates agree only on Question 4, which would impose deadlines and quotas for hazardous waste cleanup on the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering...
...policies are aimed not at inadvertant spills, but at serious dumpers. "Not only will they have to pay for cleanup and damages, they will be behind bars," he said...
Despite the renewal of the federal Superfund program, the clean-up effort will be expensive. Some of the cost of cleanup will be borne by polluters, and the Superfund will help with the most urgent and expensive projects. The bulk of the cost, however, will fall on state taxpayers in the form of increased taxes and bond issues. That's why voting for the tax ceiling proposed in Question 3 would be serious mistake. According to a recent poll, almost two-thirds of Massachusetts voters were willing to pay an extra $100 in taxes to fund the clean-up effort...
Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...
...painstaking and dangerous cleanup operation provided a grim backdrop for the Vienna talks. Throughout the week, the Soviets stuck to the assertion in their written report that the accident could easily have been avoided. In a five-hour presentation, Legasov explained that the operators of the Chernobyl reactor, while testing a turbine generator, had systematically disconnected all safety systems. That left nothing to prevent the accident after a huge power surge shot through the facility, setting off explosions and fires. Said Legasov: "The defect of the system was that the designers did not foresee the awkward and silly actions...