Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white-coated attendants who man the floor's 26 machine stations, clearing equipment jams and feeding the machines' voracious appetites for raw materials. Department 260 is what engineers call a CIM plant, for computer-integrated manufacturing. Computers, from programmable controllers on the floor to a large IBM 3090 Sierra mainframe across the hall, tell the machines how to fashion 600 different varieties of relays and contactors, essentially boxy switches that turn electric motors on and off. Only 14 months old, Department 260's assembly line is not yet running at full speed. But when it does, working at a rate...
...observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred Carrington, a high school physics teacher who led a group of students into the canyon this spring: "You almost feel as if you haven't left civilization...
...observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred Carrington, a high school physics teacher who led a group of students into the canyon this spring: "You almost feel as if you haven't left civilization...
Audubon, along with Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, is considering legal action to halt the condor roundup. The three groups point out that the birds have never bred in captivity and that the dozen hatched in zoos came from eggs taken from nests in the wild; capture of the last six wild condors, they fear, may mean no more eggs. Finally, the environmentalists say, without any condors in the wild, it will be harder to resist the pressure of developers who want to build in the birds' natural habitats. Should the day come when biologists attempt...
...boss, Stephen Mather of the Department of Interior, the other midwife of that legislation, was off in the Sierra wilderness. Albright was so convinced that the legislation signaled the beginning of something great that he was determined to seize the moment. In those wonderful days, one young man with heart could move mountains--or at least help preserve them. He persuaded his congressional staff friends to speed up the process of getting the Parks Act printed on parchment after it had been passed by Congress, approved by the requisite leaders and forwarded to President Woodrow Wilson as quickly as possible...