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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LoPresti's bill, which would affect all the state's major cities--including Cambridge and Boston--will go to the Senate Urban Affairs Committee, Graham said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Will Ask State Help To Protect Older Tenants | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Because of the limitations of the study, no cure or major advances in treatment are in sight, Kemper said...

Author: By Marc J. Jenkins, | Title: Researchers Combat Dyslexia, Herpes | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

While the NCAAs may have left a bad taste in the mouths of some of the swimmers, the American history major's performance at the end of the season at the Easterns showed his enormous talent, despite a slow start in his maiden year at Harvard...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Jack Gauthier: | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...multicolored industrial discharges, the flotsam from shoreline cities, the fecal and bacterial wastes are no longer dumped in the lakes in vast quantities. According to the International Joint Commission, the group overseeing the U.S.-Canadian agreements to clean up the waters, more than 600 of the 864 major dischargers into the Great Lakes now meet the tough new water-quality regulations. In the past ten years U.S. and Canadian municipalities have spent more than $5 billion to improve sewage treatment plants. Industries, often prod! ded by injunctions and fines, have spent billions more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Toxic substances in the lakes are now the environmentalists' major concern The levels of such chemicals as mirex (an insecticide), PCBs and mercury are still too high to allow the resumption of commercial fishing, and Canada publishes a guide that warns sports fishermen which fish are unsafe to eat. Says Leila Botts, chairman of the Great Lakes Basin Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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