Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screwworm -which ravages cattle on both sides of the border-had to be delayed because U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was out of town. More important, Washington seemed disinclined to honor its promise to halt the dumping of salt into the Colorado River, which leaves much of the soil of Mexico's Mexicali Valley cracked and covered with white cakes of salt...
...monument to Camelot--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already, a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...
According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. Last month, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...
...third highrise will loom on Boylston Street, midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...British experiment could have far-reaching implications. If a similar feat of genetic engineering can now be used on ordinary soil bacteria, high-yield grains will gain an important new source of nitrogen, thereby greatly diminishing the need for fertilizers...