Word: interior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toxic poisoning have not been so fortunate. A Pittsburgh-Corning Corporation that uses asbestos to manufacture fire-resistant industrial sleeves was closed in 1972 for numerous health violations. Asbestos dust was so thick in the air that it was often impossible to see across the 200-foot wide plant interior. Asbestos covered the floor and the meal tables. Plant ventilators were clogged with the dust...
...Francisco boasts a lot of awesome architecture: the towering headquarters of Transamerica Corp., which looks like an elongated pyramid; the severe, deep-carnelian granite Bank of America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...
Those precautions served only to whet journalistic appetites. Dozens of reporters tried to come up with the book's contents, without success. But ABC News cameras were allowed ten days ago to film the interior of the printing plant on the condition that its location not be revealed. TIME, which had made an offer for magazine rights to the book, attempted to determine the highlights of its contents by talking to some of those who were familiar with the work. Lipscomb two weeks ago offered to confirm or deny some details TIME had learned, but changed his mind after...
...last-minute reprieve, representatives of 54 U.S. oil companies gathered at the New York Hilton, envelopes containing their bids tucked in locked briefcases. A moment before the bidding was to begin, Frank Basile, manager of the Bureau of Land Management's Outer Continental Shelf Office, told the oilmen that Interior would not appeal and the sale...
...House last week adopted an amended and, according to environmentalists, weakened version of the same measure. A compromise could get the legislation to President Carter's desk by April or May. Even after that it would still take the Interior Department months to set up a new Georges Bank lease sale. Meanwhile, sales scheduled for later this year of leases off the Georgia coast and in the Gulf of Mexico may also be delayed...