Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After two years of investigation, the New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc., a respected private organization, charges that 66 companies dump nearly 10 million gal. of contaminated waste water each day into eleven municipal sewerage systems on Long Island. Since none of these systems can treat toxic wastes, claims the report, the drinking water for some 3 million residents is "in danger of deteriorating into a severely contaminated industrial sewer...
...many waste handlers have merely tossed the refuse into leaky burial pits, or carted it off to municipal dumps to mix with household garbage, or paid farmers small fees to let them hide 55-gal. drums on unused land, often by dark of night. Some haulers have pumped liquid wastes into tank trucks and driven down rural roads with the pet cocks open, releasing the chemicals into ditches. Some of the companies that paid middlemen or haulers to get rid of the refuse asked no questions about-and did not want to know-where the chemicals went...
than $3 per gal., and if something goes...
...currencies as the West German mark, the Swiss franc, and the British pound has only widened the price gap. In Munich, a cup of coffee now sells for the dollar equivalent of $1.50; designer jeans in London go for $65 or more a pair; gasoline costs $3.23 per gal. in Denmark...
Even under the best of circumstances, 1980 was certain to be difficult. The recession has hurt both business and vacation travel, reducing the amount of passenger traffic by about 4% in June. Worse yet, fuel costs have skyrocketed, from 40? per gal. in early 1979 to 87? at present. The result: 30% of operating costs go simply to pay the fuel bill, vs. only 20% 18 months...