Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other dumps. Only a few miles away, near a barren field called the Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may...
I read with interest your fine article on the Nobel Prizes for 1979. However, I was disappointed by one serious omission. Nowhere in your article did you mention the institutions that encouraged the research, or the granting agencies that provided the necessary financial support for the awardees. Purdue University has...
...energy companies and Washington policymakers are sold on shale, others are not. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain...
Prices gyrate two or three points between lunch and cocktails. When interest rates rise bond prices fall-and often sharply. That is because securities sold earlier at lower rates are less desirable than new bonds that will pay a higher return. In just a few hours last month, the price...
Sarah C. Doering '49, assistant to the president for planning at Radcliffe, said in 1968 that, "It would be a mistake to only think in terms of the individual college Houses. They must be conceived in the context of the Quadrangle area, it's immediate environment, and the total University...