Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowell is a landmark of the historical awareness that HABS has fostered, a symbol that we see our past no longer exclusively in powdered wigs and pewter candlesticks but also in the gritty romance of woof, wharf and smokestack. With its coarse but handsome brick structures bordering on a web of canals, Lowell is a kind of industrial Venice without gondolas. But if its partly abandoned textile mills are to survive, they must be occupied and put to new uses. To promote interest in redevelopment, the HABS team is preparing floor plans and renderings of the most dramatic of Lowell...
...Japanese attitude is quite different from what AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other advocates of a U.S. industrial policy suggest when they call for government aid to smokestack America. While Kirkland and his allies seek to strengthen ailing industries, MITI'S goal is to shrink them slowly but steadily so that resources can be shifted to more promising fields...
...which is the only U.S. plant using arsenic-rich copper ore imported from the Philippines. The proposed standard requires the smelter to install the best available technology to lower its overall arsenic emissions to 189 tons per year from the 310 tons that annually belch from its 565-ft. smokestack and seep from other parts of the plant. Asarco is already spending $4.4 million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA's Northwest regional administrator, maintains that "arsenic is toxic at any level" and Asarco...
...fields such as semiconductors and computers, while old industries will continue to suffer. A committee of academics, Congressmen, labor leaders and business executives, chaired by Senator William Roth of Delaware and Congressman Don Bonker of Washington, will soon issue a report concluding that by the 1990s, employment in such smokestack industries as steel and autos will shrink from the present 20% of the labor force to perhaps...
...course, no one claims that all production in basic industries will wither away. Says Harvard's Robert B. Reich, author of The Next American Frontier: "The choice is not between a smokestack America, on the one hand, and high technology, on the other. That is a false choice." The real challenge confronting the U.S., he says, is how to use high technology in smokestack industries...