Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...childlike. After their parents' death, both sleep in their double bed, platonically, utterly innocent of Freud or of any sense of guilt or impropriety. Their naivete is secured through solitude. News of the outside world comes, if at all, as a whisper. The local paper headlines the huge salmon caught, after a three-hour struggle, in a nearby pool, and then mentions in passing: "Allies enter Berlin-Hitler dead in Bunker-Mussolini killed by Partisans." News of atomic bombs over Japan a few months later gives the twins identical nightmares: "That their bed-curtains had caught fire, that their...
...unhealthy levels of lead in drinking water. Cost since that time for neutralizing chemicals: $1 million annually. In Maine, where the measured acidity of rainfall has increased 40 times in the past 80 years, high levels of toxic mercury, lead and aluminum in acidified streams have killed or deformed salmon embryos. The problem is spreading to other parts of the country. Damage from acid rain has been reported in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida and California...
...curb acid rain. Already, 2,000 to 4,000 lakes in Ontario have become so acidified that they can no longer support trout and bass, and some 1,300 more in Quebec are on the brink of destruction. In Nova Scotia, nine rivers used as spawning grounds by Atlantic salmon in the spring no longer teem with fish...
ACSR Chairman Walter J. Salmon, Roth Professor of Retailing at the Business School, said recently that a subcommittee is drafting a report that would offer two approaches for the advisory committee to make a recommendation to the Corporation on Nuclear investments. The ACSR may either support shareholder resolutions that ask companies to limit or reconsider their involvement in nuclear weapons production, or may recommed abstaining or opposing such largely symbolic proposals, he said...
ACSR Chairmas, Walter J. Salmon, Roth Professor of Retailing at the Business School, said yesterday that a subcommittee of the 12-member body is drafting a preliminary report on nuclear investments for the entire committee to consider...