Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spray of soot from Cambridge Hospital's smokestack blanketed nearby cars, streets and buildings Thursday morning at around...
...drive east of Los Angeles. The plant, once 20 stories high and 100 yds. long, has been reduced to a ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just be allowed to sit and rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild...
Moreover, despite an influx of farmers and smokestack-industry workers attracted by its anti-NAFTA stance, UWSA's core membership is heavy on small- business people, retired military officers and others dexterous with Rolodexes, mailing lists and the other building blocks of activism. They are also dedicated. Roger Henson, the group's Texas issues coordinator, a 45-year- old engineering consultant with a wife and 11-year-old son, has put his life on hold to work the volunteer position. "We made the decision as a family that it was critical to our nation to participate in this debate...
Lower taxes, lower salaries, affordable housing and less red tape also showed companies on both coasts, and especially in high-cost California, that they could operate less expensively in the Rockies. That has given the mountain states a leg up in the interregional competition popularly known as "smokestack chasing." Companies discovered that even after factoring in transportation costs, basing themselves inland could be advantageous. This spring Rio Rancho, New Mexico, used a $114 million tax-incentive package to lure Intel into expanding its local semiconductor plant. The deal was the largest private investment in a U.S. city by a single...
...SMART BOMB DOWN THE SMOKESTACK of the financial part of the Cali cartel's operations," said U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger. ! The Desert Storm terminology seemed at odds with the central metaphor of Operation Green Ice, the international drug bust that broke up the complex financial infrastructure of Colombia's premier cocaine cartel. But the effect was at least as impressive. Law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested...