Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand Fred Astaire Jennifer Jones' cat--and leave Jennifer Jones to roast in the skyscraper. Or the likes of shipmate Roddy McDowall, saving some singing blonde floozy when the cruiser Poseidon rolled over and played dead--only to end up a piece of fondue in the ship's smokestack...
...control bad side effects but sets standards and allows the companies freedom to devise means of compliance on their own. The Environmental Protection Agency's "bubble plan" for air pollution control is an example of this flexible approach. Rather than strictly controlling the pollutants from each and every smokestack in a factory, the agency sets overall standards for the effluents from the entire plant or groups of plants. The air-quality goal is the same, but the means of reaching it are more liberal and less costly. Managers determine how to achieve the goal...
...component of the Administration's energy strategy," says the President's budget report. Expenditures for energy-saving programs will increase next year by 93%, to $1.2 billion. An additional $12 billion is set aside for a multi-year program to help utility companies buy new boilers and smokestack scrubbers needed to convert from oil to coal. Until the last days of budget preparations in mid-December, the President's economic advisers were urging a new gasoline tax of 50? per gal. as the most powerful conservation measure. But after Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark's December...