Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clatter of mess-hall cleanup had just given way to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle when Sergeant Manit Kammung and 800 other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
Central to the argument is the Clean Air Act, one of the more successful and popular pieces of environmental legislation to emerge from Congress. Passed in 1970 at a time of heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little...
...valve did open, the accident goes down in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as only a "serious failure." Rochester Gas-and Electric assured Ginna's neighbors that only "minimal" radioactivity had escaped, and set about persuading the State Public Service Commission to make customers pay for the six-month cleanup...
...President gave a preview of his argument last week in a speech to civic and business leaders in New York City. "Yes, we are in a recession," Reagan said. "Our Administration is cleanup crew for those who went on a nonstop [spending] binge and left the tab for us to pick...
...week's end the death toll approached 30, and property damage (500 houses and businesses destroyed) was expected to reach $280 million. Five counties were declared federal disaster areas, and 2,000 state workers, as well as 200 National Guardsmen, were engaged in the daunting rescue and cleanup operations...