Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fooled by the two 'Gulf' signs that tower over Mass. Ave. across the street from the Harvard Union. Harvard tore down the gas station that went with the signs in December and is expected to announce plans to redevelop the site...
...Harvard's delay in deciding on a new use for the Gulf station site has already proved costly. On June 5, the City Council passed a zoning change that cut by nearly 40,000 square feet the size of any new construction on the site...
...University decided to tear down the white neo-Georgian filling station that had occupied the site for nearly 50 years last winter. At that time Harvard officials were trying to avoid the legal hassles that could ensue if the building were allowed to reach the half-century mark...
Visitors to the Grand Canyon have long complained that smog is ruining the view. A National Park Service study tracked winter weather patterns and the sources of the haze. The main culprit: Arizona's Navajo Generating Station, an electrical plant 80 miles away. The plant, burning 24,000 tons of coal daily and releasing an estimated 12 to 13 tons of sulfur dioxide from its smokestacks every hour, was found responsible for about half the Grand Canyon's pollution...
Last week the Environmental Protection Agency recommended that up to $1 billion in pollution controls be installed at the station. But the Federal Bureau of Reclamation owns a 24% interest in Navajo and would have to contribute to the cleanup. Faced with an interagency imbroglio, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan responded in classic fashion by ordering up yet another study, thus casting further haze over the future of Grand Canyon...