Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Pennsylvania Water Co., which serves 500,000 people, was able to reopen its river intake at Becks Run by midweek, though it had to filter the diluted oil through ten times the usual amount of activated carbon. But other water systems still reported critical shortages. Warned Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster: "We're still a long way from being out of this situation. If people go back to using water as they usually do, the system will break down...
Workers at West Germany's Porsche will get an unusually long Christmas break this year. The plants that produce the prestige sports car will not reopen until Jan. 22, and even then production will be cut back by two-thirds. The slowdown is the result of Porsche's overreliance on the American market, which absorbed about 60% of the company's production in 1986. But 1987 sales slowed to a crawl because of the stock-market crash and the decline of the dollar against the West German mark...
Officer Robert Ames, the association's president, said all of the other city unions had accepted a contract granting a uniform pay raise for all city employees, with the proviso that if any union was given a higher raise, the others could reopen negotiations over wages...
...problems come at time when Edison is struggling to refurbish the plant and gain permission to reopen it sometime this winter. The plant has been closed since April 1986, for a series of mechanical and managerial problems...
...Sandinistas' glad hand did not extend, however, to Radio Catolica, the religious station that was permitted to reopen last month after a 20-month hiatus. The government last week prohibited Radio Catolica from broadcasting news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...