Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked, both because Lindsey had won a lot of neighborhood support and because he used a variety of methods to make each oasis grow. He started a tutoring program, for example, that now teaches 150 youngsters reading and arithmetic, plus a variety of "coping skills." He started a plant nursery in what was once a junkyard, where tenants can pick out trees for their yards. With the help of Ronald Range, a black detective from Boston, he organized "X-ray units," small tactical police squads that worked closely with community leaders to protect each oasis...
Unlike the telecommunications business, the nuclear power industry strained under a yoke of regulation. Ever since the 1979 nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, stepped-up safety precautions have made the building of atomic power facilities an increasingly complex and expensive job. Utility companies stopped work on eight nuclear construction projects in 1984. Nuclear woes generated financial difficulties for several utilities, including Long Island Lighting and Consumers Power of Michigan...
...tons of high-level radioactive wastes beginning in 1998. They were the unhappy winners in a competition involving nine possible sites. Most of the nuclear rubbish is in the form of 12-ft.-long spent fuel rods that have been stored for nearly 30 years at the 85 power plants scattered across the U.S. The water pools used at the plant sites to cool and temporarily hold the rods are filling...
...survivors barely had time to mourn when suddenly there they were: American lawyers. Looking for business. They courted Indian legal experts over leisurely meals in New Delhi's finest hotels. They culled documents at makeshift relief offices outside the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, seeking the names of potential clients. Their motives, the U.S. lawyers insisted, were pure. As Melvin Belli, the flamboyant San Francisco attorney sometimes called the "King of Torts," put it, somewhat inelegantly, "I am here to bring justice and money to those poor little people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons...
...American lawyers representing Bhopal clients argue that suits can be brought in the U.S. because Union Carbide India is 51% owned by the Union Carbide Corp. of the U.S. and is thus an agent of the parent firm. The U.S. corporation, they further contend, is responsible for the Indian plant's design and safety program. Cautioned Hoyt, who has represented Union Carbide in other matters: "Just because you have equity in a company doesn't mean that company is your agent." The plant in India, he suggested, might have been "fairly autonomous...