Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were up to me, I'd close down every nuclear plant in the world tomorrow," Wald added...
...mile-and-a-half from the plant, which the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) hopes to open in 1984, an estimated 15,000 foes of nuclear power peacefully gathered on a strip of beach to hear speakers and singers. It was the largest political demonstration ever in Long Island's Suffolk County...
Violence erupted only once, when a group of about ten teenagers stormed the plant's main gate and attempted to enter the grounds by force. When LILCO employees attempted to close the gate they pulled at the metal fence and began throwing rocks and bottles over...
...front of the Draper facility near Kendall Square, demonstrators listened to Richard Proescher, who was recently fired from the General Dynamics Trident submarine manufacturing plant in Groton, Conn. for his anti-nuclear activities. Proescher said that conversion of weapons plants to peaceful uses would mean more jobs. "Weapons production is the least labor-intensive industry there is," Proescher told the crowd
...attracting the most sup port will speed up the slow, cumbersome system of tax depreciation. At present, companies are allowed to take deductions from their income to make up for the depreciation of their aging factories and equipment. Those deductions vary according to the expected life of the plant or gear. For example, railroad equipment can be depreciated over 40 years, tractors over three years. Faster depreciation would reduce taxes and thus increase the capital available for investment...