Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaks appear to have occurred at plants where Business Week is printed in Old Saybrook, Conn., and Torrance, Calif. Investigators were looking into reports that Dillon had been meeting at breakfast on Thursday mornings with printers coming off the night shift at the Connecticut plant. Dillon may have used the information to buy stocks on Thursday, then sold them at a profit the following Monday. The broker, who could face fraud charges, reportedly admitted to co-workers that his tips came from Business Week, but claimed he was getting an early copy at a newsstand. Investigators are uncertain whether...
...school chemistry teacher in Granite Falls, N.C., who discovered that an incinerator was producing toxic fumes and, over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson of Claremore, Okla., who financed the opposition to a planned nuclear power plant by mortgaging her farm and raffling handmade quilts? None of us, though, should be intimidated, says Medlock. "There's something each of us can do to make the world a better place...
...shuttle program also must pass another key propulsion test before Discovery can be certified for flight: a fullscale firing, the fifth in a series, of the redesigned solid fuel booster rocket at the Morton Thiokol plant in Utah. It is scheduled about August...
...cadmium, mercury and other heavy metals from industrial discharges. Last year toxic discharges increased 23%. In Los Angeles urban runoff and sewage deposits have had a devastating impact on coastal ecosystems, notably in Santa Monica Bay, which gets occasional floods of partly processed wastes from a nearby sewage- treatment plant during heavy rainstorms. Off San Diego's Point Loma, a popular haunt of skin divers, the waters are so contaminated with sewage that undersea explorers run the risk of bacterial infection...
Meanwhile, at the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that it is likely President Reagan will veto plant-closing legislation that Dukakis has been making an issue in the presidential campaign...