Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimate is available on the costs of the cleanup, and the potential impact on the area's lobster and clam business is unknown...
...major danger to the patient remained internal infection. Despite the surgeons' heroic cleanup of the intestinal spillage from the first bullet, some bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the left flank. Under local anesthesia, they cut into and drained the infection. Even with massive doses of antibiotics, Wallace now had peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through...
...volunteers working on threatened dams in the hills, and scouted campsites where some 4,000 people had been vacationing. The Salvation Army set up three food lines to serve more than 10,000 meals a day. Some 2,500 South Dakota National Guardsmen pitched into the rescue and cleanup operation. Airmen from Ellsworth Air Force Base directed traffic and drove emergency vehicles. Boy Scouts helped clean the main streets, picking up litter. The entire staff of South Dakota Governor Richard Kneip moved into the city to help. Indian tribes from as far away as California contributed aid to residents...
...bulk buying. (In Virginia, for example, the average industrial user pays 10 per kw-h for buying in bulk; the residential user pays 20, and the very small user, i.e., the poor, pays 30.) If the price of power must equal its costs, including the costs of environmental cleanup, then it seems reasonable that everyone pay equally...
JOBS. Conceding that his proposed 40% cut in the defense budget would temporarily cause some unemployment, McGovern is trying to convince California workers that steadier jobs would be created if defense and aerospace industries shifted to such peacetime needs as mass-transit facilities, housing and environmental cleanup. During the conversion, he proposes that laid-off workers be paid up to 80% of their salary for one year...