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...takeover is attractive to Columbia, the last of Hollywood's independent studios, because it provides access to Coke's vast reservoir of cash. Those funds will allow the film producer to compete with bigger rivals like Paramount and Universal Pictures. Both of those firms have already become subsidiaries of larger corporations that can provide the financing for developing movies and TV shows...
...capacity only with the aid of a spare pump at the Fresh Pond reservior public works facility. Last week a massive electrical charge, caused by an explosion at the Rindge Towers apartment buildings in North Cambridge, blew out one of the three pumps used to bring water from the reservoir into the main system...
Federal officials estimate that up to 6 million illegal aliens now reside in the U.S. Last year alone as many as 1.5 million unauthorized immigrants eluded American border patrols. This swelling reservoir of willing workers makes it easy for unscrupulous businessmen to flout U.S. labor laws. A Labor Department survey completed last year found that 5% of U.S. businesses paid less than the minimum wage, and 21% failed to give time and a half for overtime hours...
...east to the Everglades on the west. But heavily populated Miami and its environs draw so much water that the water table is rapidly falling, permitting sea water to seep into the aquifer. Only in the Everglades, where the land over the aquifer is still unpaved, can this reservoir be effectively resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried up many swamps, at least temporarily. This year the drought is so severe that Governor Bob Graham declared South Florida a disaster area and approved plans for $450,000 worth...
...added that with the Aswan liabilities have come new benefits. The collapse of the sardine industry in the Delta, for example, has been balanced by the creation of a rich new fishery in the Aswan reservoir. The Nile's increased salinity turns out to have been exaggerated; the salt level, the scientists found, is up only 10% to 15%, not yet enough to damage most crops. In fact, the greatest threat to water quality is not the dam but the growing pollution from thriving towns and farms along the now peaceable river's shore. As for schistosomiasis...