Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The garbage explosion already dwarfs population growth. While the number of people in the U.S. has gone up 30% since 1950, solid waste-largely as a result of the ever-increasing use of throw-away packages and containers-has gone up a full 60%, to 160 million tons a year...
Titanic Solution. Harvard has a research grant to determine whether waste can be burned far out at sea by incinerator ships, researchers elsewhere are trying to find a ready market for garbage compost. Since transportation accounts for 70% of the cost of waste disposal, another team is studying the possibility...
For the mayoralty race Lindsay, therefore, had at his disposal a hardcore of workers, experienced and able to move out into the other four boroughs to set up and manage a grassroots campaign. In each neighborhood vacant stores were rented to serve as local headquarters for volunteers, in most cases...
The fight to repeal the act was led by Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, who feared that if such a subsidy were made available before existing laws governing campaign contributions and expenses are overhauled, "we shall simply never achieve reform." New York Democrat Robert Kennedy noted that while the money would...
One of Reston's more feasible suggestions is that much of the "classified information" that floods into Washington every day should be put at the disposal of the press. Most of the material, Reston says, could be published with no harm done the government. The reason it has remained unavailable...