Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strip-miners must restore the land to its "approximate original contour," thus eliminating all hillside gashes, depressions in or piles of soil on the earth. In addition, the miners can no longer dump debris over hillsides...
Every week, some 1,000 acres of America's land are strip-mined. Giant power shovels tear off the topsoil and expose the underlying seams of coal. After the glistening black mineral is loosened by explosives, earth movers gouge it up and dump it into huge waiting trucks. The process is so much cheaper and easier than deep-mining that more than 50% of the U.S.'s coal comes from surface mines. Trouble is, in only about half the strip-mining operations is the ravaged land filled in-and even then it seldom can be returned to productive...
...sales rose slightly in 1972, net profit skidded by $1.7 million, to $6.7 million. Granatelli was drawn into open disagreement with his fellow directors, especially Ruttenberg, who argued unsuccessfully for a cutback in the costly ad budget. Apparently Ruttenberg seized the opportunity to persuade the board to dump Granatelli after a preliminary company report estimated that third-quarter earnings would again be down sharply-even though most of the decline was caused by the Government's summer price freeze...
Supertestifier Ralph Nader challenged the panel to concentrate on forcing multinationals to divulge information on profit, safety and other policies, which they are not now required to furnish publicly anywhere. Such open accountings of their activities, charged Nader, would reveal that many "world-corps" dump mislabeled and dangerous goods in foreign outlets, seek out nations with low pollution standards for new sites on which to build plants and condone "snakepit" working conditions in the Third World...
...Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...