Word: hogged
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...Opera is still racing against its U.S. competitors to offer features like encryption that are crucial to Web users but can hog disc-drive space. The company's latest innovation allows the Opera browser to function like rival Microsoft's ubiquitous?PowerPoint software to make presentations on the Web. It's an open question when the company can expect a market listing now that high-tech stocks are out of favor in both Europe and the U.S. Having succeeded so far with its unorthodox business model, though, Opera's executives are confident they can continue to offer everything their bigger rivals...
Talk to a resident living downwind of a North Carolina hog factory and you're likely to hear tales of odors that can peel paint. In the Tar Heel state, the swine industry famously generates mountains of waste - some 19 million tons a year - and critics have long charged that the industry pollutes the air and water illegally. This week the country's biggest hog processor and producer, Smithfield Foods, is expected to be the target of a blitz of lawsuits filed by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a posse of class-action lawyers who are mounting an assault...
...Kennedy's lead suit claims Smithfield and its subsidiaries illegally dumped millions of pounds of untreated hog waste and other contaminants, causing "gross contamination to the waters and tributaries of the Cape Fear, Neuse, and New Rivers." Another suit charges Brown's of Carolina, a Smithfield subsidiary, with violating the Clean Water Act. And a third, to be filed in U.S. District Court, claims Smithfield's serial pollution violates the federal RICO statute (designed to be used against organized crime). In a statement to TIME, Smithfield calls the suits "totally baseless...
...Certainly accidents happen, and things get ugly: In June 1995, 22 million gallons of hog waste spilled into tributaries leading to the New River, killing thousands of fish. And when Hurricane Floyd hit in 1999, waste from pits and lagoons was pumped into fields, which then flooded into the Tar, Neuse and Cape Fear tributaries...
...Kennedy and his lawyers are planning for a long fight. In the months ahead, they say they'll file hundreds of suits nationwide against the company and other hog operations. "People have been waiting years for government to step in," he says. "They've come to the conclusion that government isn't going to help." Now, he says, it's time for the lawyers...