Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After years of costly court fights, Reserve was ordered by a U.S. district court last summer (TIME, July 26) to end its pollution of the lake by next July 7. At present, the company is fighting with the state of Minnesota over possible sites for on-land disposal plants. Unless Reserve gets the site it wants (seven miles from Silver Bay, v. a site 20 miles distant proposed by the state), it is threatening to close down its Silver Bay plant -and in effect the town itself. The fight has engulfed neighboring communities. Citizens of Duluth...
...Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants have gone to watch a game on the community screen...
...beasts organize themselves to see the contemporary version! Preparations begin the day after a site has been chosen. The first step in 18 months of logistical work-up is the arrival in the blessed city (the Super Bowl pours $55 million to $70 million into the local economy) of Bill Granholm, a top aide to National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Granholm begins by cornering 15,000 hotel rooms. Before the game is over, he and the rest of the league staff will have seen to everything from towels and hot dogs to brackets for televisions in the press...
...placed in the overall fight for democratic rights. An aggressive, visible student movement must be built to safeguard rights and press forward the elimination of discrimination and oppression. Harvard must be seen as the nexus of this reactionary campaign and so it is only appropriate Harvard be the site for a new era in the student movement...
...other nations to follow suit. In addition, I would like to see the termination of all tests of nuclear weapons. And I might add that there has been some indication that the Soviets agree with this proposal and have even put forward the possibility of on-site inspection...