Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant pulp mill for the Amazon wilderness...
Brazilian environmentalists worry over the long-range impact of Ludwig's deforestation. To feed the mill's appetite, Ludwig's crews have cleared nearly 250,000 acres of jungle so far and planted 81 million fast-growing trees; the raw wood will be hauled to the plant on 150 miles of Ludwig-built railroad...
Regulation. Carter's Regulatory Analysis Review Group made its debut by persuading Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to put off new federal regulations against cotton dust in mills. Those regulations, proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would have helped reduce lung disease among cotton-mill workers, but at an annual cost of $200 million...
Wages. In its first public blast at a labor negotiation, Bosworth's COWPS condemned as "clearly inflationary" a 25.5% three-year wage offer that West Coast employers presented to 21,000 pulp-and-paper mill workers. Both Bosworth and Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser, fear that labor is coming to take for granted annual 10% wage increases. Unless the trend is reversed, says Bosworth, "we might as well forget about decelerating inflation any time in the near future...
...Working, we hear something very close to the blue-collar blues, as waitresses, firemen, call girls, mill hands, gas-meter readers, tie salesmen and other assorted sons and daughters of toil tell of the hopes, frustrations and occasional joys of their daily march in the army of labor...