Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would also be empowered to restrict the use or distribution of "any" substance deemed hazardous to health or the environment. It would set standards for noise abatement, enforce new ones for strip mining, establish a national policy to curb ocean pollution, and crack down on pesticides. The most dangerous chemicals would reach the public only through Government-approved pest-control consultants...
...Harvard sabermen were so much better than their Hilltepper counter-parts that they were able to finish all nine bouts in about as much time as it took the foil team, fencing on another strip, to fence three bouts. "We were done so quickly, that we spent most-of our time practicing at the other end of the gym. We didn't even see the rest of the match," Larry Cetrulo, the Crimson's number one saber man, said last-night...
...range war on the Xerox Strip-an all-cut fight for the right to reproduce, automation's answer...
Last week Lord Robens, chairman of the National Coal Board, gave up his job in protest over government plans to partly dismantle his $2 billion-a-year fuel conglomerate, which is the world's largest coal company. The Tories want to strip off some of the Coal Board's many nonmining sidelines, like chemicals, brickmaking and North Sea gas ex ploration. Robens, a hearty Yorkshireman known among miners as "Alf," did not care to preside over the dismantling. "Taking profitable areas away from the National Coal Board," he warned, "would make it more difficult for the coal industry...
...Cook & Son, which last year earned $2,900,000, and Pickfords, a healthy freight forwarder. Profitable sidelines of the major nationalized firms would come next. Indeed, the government is due to begin talks with British Steel this month. One plan suggested by a few hard-lining Tories is to strip the company of its three most promising divisions-chemicals, special steels and construction engineering-and leave it with three less profitable branches. Pessimists in Harold Wilson's Labor Party are already talking about a return to the "bad old days," when just about the only firm in Britain that...