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...nearly $1.5 billion. The cost of the cleanup is staggering. Mud dumped into the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers must be dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...cosmetic alteration of apartheid's horrors that corporations uphold only to legitimize their business in South Africa. They believe, furthermore, that Sullivan's faith in the willingness and ability of corporations to bring about progressive change and social justice is unfounded. Noting that U.S. corporations employ less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the black population in South Africa, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, says the principles are a "face-saver or fig leaf for the corporations that in no way change the fundamental problems of apartheid, and are being used counter to Sullivan's own intentions...
...square-foot Coop, one-tenth the size of the Harvard Square store, will be the first Coop that is not based in an academic community and that does not emphasize textbook sales...
...equipment, courtesy of the smugglers, they find themselves losing out in the war of technology. Drug runners are using ever faster ships, and planes; four-engine Constellations, for example, are replacing some twin-engine planes. And some law enforcement officials in Florida frankly admit that they probably stop only one-tenth of the drug traffic, which means that shipments worth upwards of $3 billion a year are getting through...
...electronic games seem to encourage simple repitition. (Although at Jordan Marsh they encourage nothing since the display models are mostly out of batteries except for one called "Einstein," which sounds, from its weary beep, to be operating at about one-tenth normal charge.) One machine obviously designed to increase a child's self-confidence, boasts simply "I am programmed to beat you." Even Etch-A-Sketch, once a marvelously cranky mechanical drawing toy, has been automated...