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...appeal for help, but that course of action is the least likely. The University has three other choices. It could bring direct pressure, as Middle South's largest stockholder, on the utility to install environmental safeguards. If the utility refuses to comply with Harvard's request, the University could dump all 561,000 shares of its stock onto the market, a move which might unnerve Middle South's board of directors...
While sparring with the authorities, the builders are always on the alert for material to improve their homes or start new ones. "Every time I bring trash to the dump," says one, "I bring home more than I took out there...
...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...