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While Allied was given the maximum penalty allowed under the law-an 1899 federal statute governing waste disposal in rivers and 1972 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act-the judge suspended all but $25,000 of the multimillion dollar fines he gave two owners of Life Science, and placed them on five years' probation...
That is right. Cigarette bootlegging -"buttlegging" to police-is a multimillion-dollar business. It is a phenomenon of the past decade, when hard-pressed state governments discovered that levying stiff cigarette taxes was a politically painless way of raising money. The taxes, however, are easy to evade. Buttleggers, according to one police source, now smuggle nearly half a billion cartons a year-or one-sixth of all cigarettes smoked-into 42 high-tax states. The Council Against Cigarette Bootlegging, an organization financed by the tobacco industry, estimates that 44 million cartons will be smuggled into New York State alone this...
...public schools. Overall, there are now 3,500 private academies in the South. About 750,000 mostly middle-class students-one out of ten white students in the South-attend these schools, which vary widely in quality and tuition. Some are makeshift affairs in church basements; others have multimillion-dollar facilities and are as good as or better than the region's public schools. Although they were founded in response to desegregation, the academies are preferred by some parents partly because they tend to be less permissive (paddling for discipline is a common practice) and because many of them...
...Carolinas, which have long been major textile centers, are also attracting diverse foreign firms. West German companies, led by Hoechst, the chemical giant, have more invested in South Carolina than anywhere else outside of Germany itself. Tennessee's Nashville, along with its multimillion-dollar country-music industry, is fast becoming a mecca for financial services...
...freshman, Scott Van Duyne '80, sitting in the upper stands with a group of upperclassmen, said he found the pre-game spectacle "fascinating," but added that "I don't like all this garbage over here," indicating the groundwork for Harvard's multimillion-dollar athletic complex behind Soldiers Field stadium...