Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard lightweight crew will be shooting to recapture the Eastern Sprints title it lost to Princeton last year on Lake Quinsigamond tomorrow...
...undefeated Radcliffe crew will be seeking to retain its Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Championships title on Lake Beseck in Middlefield, Conn., this Sunday...
Reserve Mining, which is owned jointly by Armco Steel and Republic Steel, produces 15% of the U.S.'s iron ore. It mines taconite around Babbitt, Minn., then ships the flintlike rock 50 miles to Silver Bay, on the shores of Lake Superior. There the iron content of the taconite is extracted, and the wastes, or "tailings," are dumped into the water. Any time that Reserve is attacked for polluting the lake-and the attacks have been continuous since 1967-it says that it might have to close the plant if ordered to stop. That would wreak economic havoc, since...
...issue became public health. Asbestos fibers had been discovered in the drinking water that five communities, including Duluth, 60 miles down the shoreline, draw from Lake Superior. Federal scientists pinpoint Reserve's taconite tailings as the source of the asbestos. Company experts say that the material leaches naturally out of surrounding rock formations. Either way, the minute fibers are dangerous. If ingested or inhaled-and particles have been detected in the air over Reserve's Silver Bay plant-asbestos can cause cancer...
...restaurant in Springfield, Mo. Later this month the full appellate court will hear the company's appeal for a permanent stay. Meantime, the employees are back at work, and every day the big plant at Silver Bay is spilling 67,000 tons of taconite tailings into Lake Superior...