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...staffers detained. "The Opposition has been beheaded," Milinkevich said. For his part, Lukashenko announced that "the revolution that was so much talked about failed," and dismissed any talk of economic sanctions as empty threats that would be too costly for European nations that trade with Belarus (which exports potash fertilizers, chemical fibers and crude oil products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: A Revolution in Belarus? | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

Contact: Jenna Potash, Recruitment Coordinator, Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, 92 South Main St., P.O. Box 482, Waterbury...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fret, Get a Job | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

Sequoyah has been converting its wastewater into fertilizer since 1973 by chemically removing most of the uranium and heavy metals and adding potash and phosphate during application. The liquid was first tested on small plots of company land. In the early 1980s the NRC, finding "no adverse environmental impacts," authorized more widespread testing. That assessment was circulated to the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and each passed it with no comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Making Fertilizer from What? | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...cash. In one of the biggest of these accords, Occidental Petroleum and the Soviet Union have a 20-year, $20 billion agreement that calls, in part, for the annual exchange of 1 million tons of American superphosphoric acid fertilizer for 4 million tons of Soviet ammonia, urea and potash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Barter | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...fresh water, so that the river might be restored to its old purity in a few months. Still, even if the effort is completely successful, there may be long-term repercussions, political as well as environmental. Vasilyev bluntly accused officials, presumably those in charge of designing and managing the potash plant, of ignoring two warnings from inspectors who had demanded improvements in the dam. Criminal charges, he said, had been brought against eight culprits. Implicit in this public reprimand (which follows official reports of bureaucratic bungling in the recent trapping of 40 Soviet ships in the Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Uneasy Flows the Dniester | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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