Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, 80 per cent of the undergraduates are from outside of Massachusetts. Students tend to pay more attention to urban renewal in Akron, Ohio, or rent control efforts in Eugene, Ore., than they do to alleged police brutality in Cambridge or to the implications of Harvard expansion...
...patient who was waiting to be examined. In Paterson, N.J., a woman came into the U.J.A. office to say that although her husband had given, she was donating her engagement ring. In Miami 92-year-old Mayshie Friedberg spent 100 hours during the week selling bonds. In Portland, Ore., children went out into the streets to hawk buttons and bumper stickers proclaiming: LET ISRAEL LIVE! In Boston some 50 donors a day offered blood to the Red Cross, even though no plea had been made. Said Herb Seplis, bloodmobile coordinator: "There are rivers of blood if Israel needs them...
When the Reserve Mining Co. opened its huge iron ore plant in northern Minnesota in 1955, there was no problem attracting labor. Thousands of workers jumped at the promise of high wages, dazzling views of Lake Superior from an attractive company town called Silver Bay, and the good moose and partridge hunting in the area. Now, however, the jobs, the plant and the town itself are in danger of extinction. In a complex court case now in its twelfth week, the Government is suing to halt Reserve Mining from dumping 67,000 tons of ore wastes per day into Lake...
...decades ago, Reserve Mining perfected its technique for economically extracting iron from a gray rock called taconite, which previously was considered to have too low an iron content for commercial mining and processing. Today the plant, producing 15% of the nation's iron ore, is a solid money-maker for its owners, Armco Steel Corp. and Republic Steel Corp. One reason for the profits: By dumping "tailings," or waste sand, into Lake Superior, the company saves some $25,000 a day over the costs of hauling them to disposal sites on land...
...Long Beach, Calif., closed down last week in what seemed to be an empty protest. Some motorists were stranded, and others were forced to queue up in lines four or five blocks long. National Guard troops were called out to pump gas at a station in Gleneden Beach, Ore., where Western Governors were holding a conference, so that the visiting politicians could get out for a ride. In San Jose, Calif., a dealer who decided to close before filling the tanks of all waiting motorists had to be rescued from irate customers by the state highway patrol...