Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Neum and reported his faculty sources discovered facts which have since prompted a campus debate over whether or not the School of Education, has been functioning on a diploma mill...
John Stuart Mill of his own free will...
Ever since New Year's Day, a familiar sight has been missing from Gary, Ind. For the first time in years, there is no miasma of smoke over U.S. Steel's Open Hearth Mill No. 4-a complex of ten 65-year-old furnaces that annually produce 960,000 tons of steel and, as an unwelcome byproduct, 2,700 tons of airborne grit. Because it claims that it cannot curb the fumes right now, the company has shut down the mill. The decision could cost 2,500 employees their jobs in a city with an unemployment rate already...
...install antipollution equipment or replace all 53 of its open-hearth furnaces in the city with more efficient, less polluting basic oxygen furnaces by Dec. 31, 1973. When that date came, though the other U.S. Steel furnaces in Gary had been replaced, the ten open-hearth furnaces in Mill No. 4 were still in operation. So the company asked the state air-pollution control board, the city and the federal Environmental Protection Agency for first one six-month and then another six-month extension. Even though Gary's air quality was far below federal health standards, the extensions were...
Paying Tribute. Last month U.S. Steel once again announced that it needed additional time to clean up Mill No. 4. The company argued that it had acted in good faith. But its new furnaces were not yet able to operate at full enough capacity to allow the old ones to be phased out and replaced. In granting a third extension, Federal Judge Allen Sharp ruled that the company must pay a fine of $2,300 a day for 90 days, or until the air-pollution problem was solved. The fine was meant, said an EPA representative, only as "an incentive...