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Generally blatant corruption at ground level appears to have given way to moral ambiguity and gray areas, where the line between private interest and public responsibility is not always recognized. By and large, traditional power has tended to slip from the grasp of special-interest groups. Pulp and paper companies no longer control Maine; Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone...
...Japanese also used the oil shortages to make their industries more efficient. Large industrial firms in such sectors as cement, pulp and paper, and transit made major adjustments to comply with the government's demand for energy conservation. Many steel companies fitted blast furnaces with recovery turbines that use the pressure at the top of the furnaces to generate electricity for other steel-mill uses. Continuous casting, in which molten metal is formed directly into products for shipment and bypasses the cooling stages, helped decrease by 10% the amount of energy required to make a ton of steel. From...
...Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened up the boy's abdomen had nothing more to do: inside was a bleeding pulp." He added that the doctors emerging from the operating room were weeping. Underground leaders of Solidarity issued a statement calling Przemyk a victim of "paid militia torturers...
...also been in the forest-products business. It entered the field almost by accident, purchasing half a million acres of prime East Texas timberland as part of a long-term drive to find secure paper supplies for its magazines. The forest-products unit grew into a major producer of pulp and paperboard, although it never manufactured paper for the publications. In 1973 Time Inc. acquired Temple Industries, a large Texas producer of building products, and in 1978 it added Inland Container Corp., an Indianapolis-based manufacturer of containers and containerboard...
...inch apart. It was in common use until about 1800. The other was wove paper, in which the fibers can be seen by the trained eye. It was used consistently after 1800. Benjamin has seen only two authentic autographs by George Washington written on wove paper. By 1860 wood-pulp paper, easily distinguishable from rag paper, became commonplace. Many a period piece forger has given himself away by using the wrong paper...