Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev and Haughey, surrounded by their foreign ministers and aides, met in a VIP lounge. Outside hung a vast oil painting of the late John F. Kennedy '40 that commemorated a 1963 visit by the Irish-American president shortly before he was assassinated...
Boles said three studies done on the lot had concluded that the chemicals can be eliminated, but added he was not sure how much the clean-up would cost. The hazardous chemicals under the black top of the lot probably came from oil tanks of old houses that used to stand there, Boles said...
...Checks oil, and changes...
...sting the eyes and shroud the mountains that ring the city. By the mid-'50s, Los Angeles' smog, as the noxious vapor had been dubbed, was sufficiently thick and persistent to wilt crops, obstruct breathing and bring angry housewives into the streets waving placards and wearing gas masks. Oil companies were urged to cut sulfur emissions. Cars were required to use unleaded gas, and exhausts were fitted with catalytic converters. But as the city continued to grow unabated, so did its choking smog...
...Track idea. Says James Cohune, a spokesman for McKesson, the San Francisco-based pharmaceutical and health-care-products distributor: "I can't imagine a company keeping someone down who wanted to move up, just because she had a family. That's the Stone Age." Another California giant, the Chevron oil company, offers flexible work schedules for working mothers but does not shift them to a slow career lane. Says Dave Hufford, manager of employment policies for the firm: "We all have to balance our personal lives with our career demands, but to try to put that on a track system...