Word: sulfurous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wedgwood Royal Doulton Ulster Weaving Company Lloyds of London petroleum Fao crossfire sabotaged oil revenue transit fees paper packaging newsprint 1.5 billion dollars capital spending about 1 per cent 400 million dollars less expanding most oil firms big changes are need imported autos color videocassette recorders semiconductors shoe imports sulfur industry 1 million additional tons gardens and croplands by product underground economy 1 out of 4 Americans business activity...
...part of a treaty, signed two years ago but held up in the Senate by New England opponents, that would apportion fishing rights in the rich Georges Bank fishery off the East Coast. Canada is also dismayed about the "acid rain" that results from some 6 million tons of sulfur dioxide drifting north from U.S. industries-a problem that could be exacerbated if U.S. pollution laws are relaxed. The Ottawa government has also been pushing for faster U.S. action on plans for the joint construction of a gas pipeline from Alaska across the Canadian West into...
...nosy investigative reporter helped close down the Chicken Ranch, the famous brothel celebrated in the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. But now La Grange has a different kind of natural resource: "Chicken Ranch No. 1," an oil well that is producing 107 bbl. of low-sulfur crude...
...contrast, the researchers suggest a sulfur tax that would range from 50 cents a pound in rural areas to $3 in cities. Monitors would be set up at the 1200 biggest power plants, steel mills and factories in the nation to measure how much pollution they emit...
Smaller businesses would have to pay a tax based on a the sulfur content of the fuel they burn. They could escape the tax only if they prove they are not giving off sulfur...