Word: clo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troposphere, CFCs are immune to destruction. But in the stratosphere, they break apart easily under the glare of ultraviolet light. The result: free chlorine atoms, which attack ozone to form chlorine monoxide (ClO) and O2. The ClO then combines with a free oxygen atom to form O2 and a chlorine atom. The chain then repeats itself. "For every chlorine atom you release," says Rowland, "100,000 molecules of ozone are removed from the atmosphere...
Yesterday's rally, which featured speeches by Domenic N. Bozzotto, president of AFL-CLO Local 26, was the first in a series of demonstrations, this week designed to convince the Harvard governing board of the immorality of its investment in companies with South African operations...
...spread open. A copy of TV Guide was near the bed. Also in the room was a newspaper clipping about the President's schedule, which disclosed that Reagan would leave the White House at 1:45 p.m. to address a session of the AFL-ClO's building and construction trades department at the Washington Hilton. The President had lunch at the White House in the family quarters. He ate an avocado and chicken salad, sliced red beets and an apple tart. Then he worked on his Hilton speech and stretched out for a brief rest...