Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another $1.5 million agreement accompanies the zoning variance for the Medical Area Power Plant, which is not owned by Harvard, but by Medical Area Total Energy Project, Inc. (MATEP), a private corporation established by Harvard in order to enter into a tax agreement with the city. Harvard also makes payments on a Mission Hill housing project, also owned by a separate corporation (Mission Park Inc.) in which Harvard is a minority stockholder...
...battle lines are drawn and the strategies set as Harvard moves ahead with the building of the Medical Area Power Plant despite legal tangles and the efforts of power plant opponents to further stall construction...
Unions also face stiff and growingly effective employer resistance. In the Sunbelt, it sometimes turns intimidating. Melvin Tate, a Southern organizer, finds employees of J.P. Stevens & Co., the textile giant, fearful that Stevens will close any plant that votes in a union. Stevens bosses, says Tate, do not make that threat directly because it is illegal, but their wives and relatives pass the word in gossip. In the West, Chaikin charges, owners of some garment plants have prompted the U.S. Immigration Service to raid their own factories and arrest signers of union cards as illegal immigrants?which many indeed were...
...heavyweight exists in M87, a galaxy that appears to be spewing out a great jet of matter. Astronomers found that M87's center is ten times as bright as the rest of the galaxy, and is surrounded by stars orbiting at unexpectedly high velocities. To provide the gravitational power plant for this galactic vortex, Cambridge's Martin Rees posits a black hole 5 billion times as massive as the sun in M87's core...
...much can be done. Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, companies have been not only determinedly turning off lights and turning down thermostats but also redesigning buildings, installing energy-saving devices on assembly lines and driving the conservation message home to employees. The economical use of power at the plant or office is bound to carry over to a heightened energy consciousness for workers at home. Last year, when the economy grew at a rate of nearly 5%, industrial use of energy increased only...