Word: planning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight after flight after flight." Meanwhile, the stock of AMR, American's parent company, jumped 13% in a single day last month on rumors that the firm might become the target of a takeover bid. But like Delta, which put 14% of its stock into an employee stock-ownership plan to thwart raiders in July, American insists that it is not for sale...
...farmers, who harvest nearly half the cane sugar produced in the U.S. and contribute $2 billion a year to the state economy, cried foul. In the past month the battle intensified when the South Florida Water Management District, the main defendant in the suit, proposed a new pollution-control plan aimed at persuading U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen to back off. Lehtinen's reply: "We are going forward with the litigation aggressively." The battle may drag on for years and end up as the most expensive environmental lawsuit ever...
...water-management district is also angry. John Wodraska, the district director, claims that the lawsuit is a nuisance that only delays his staff from working on a plan to save the Everglades. Moreover, the suit is costing a fortune in both state and federal funds. Beyond the Justice Department's considerable expenses, the water district's board has spent $980,000 on legal fees and expects to dole out at least $175,000 more a month. Yet a majority of board members seem as recalcitrant as the farmers. "If ((Lehtinen)) wants to fight, let's go ahead," said board member...
...Exxon has done, is more guarded. "We don't like to use the word clean," says Captain Zawadzki. "It's not as easy as washing dishes." Protecting itself against future charges that it let Exxon off the hook, the Coast Guard will / certify only that the company's cleanup plan has been executed as described...
...Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill contingency plan "the greatest piece of maritime fiction since Moby Dick." But he had approved the document...