Word: freeport
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Human-rights activists, environmentalists and corporate watch-dogs have taken aim at one of the companies in which Harvard invests part of its $9 billion endowment, Freeport-McMoRan Inc., which has been accused of massive pollution and human-rights violations...
...Freeport operates one of the world's largest strip mines, on the Indonesian island of Irian Jaya. Its site contains, according to conservative estimates, more than $70 billion in gold...
...rented shares on my uncle's land and planted soybeans three times to get something to feed eight dairy cows. As the sun was darkened by clouds of dust from the west, many of us gradually began to realize that nature and man had drifted apart. M. EARL BOYER Freeport, Illinois...
Such dogged reporting is a hallmark of Larson's work. Raised in Freeport, Long Island, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Larson, 41, first became interested in journalism after seeing All the President's Men in 1978. "I thought, 'That looks like fun,'" he recalls. After graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he pursued a variety of beats, including computers and technology, before turning to the gun trade. "Erik is meticulous and never gives up," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "His stories are as solid...
Indeed, most of the arguments against a local McDonald's don't' hold water. The problem of preserving the Square's character is easily rectified. In Freeport, Maine, for example, they built a McDonald's inside an old home. One can imagine how a similar plan could be employed in the Square...