Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simplest of economic motives: the company has employed generations of workers and now supports some 2,200 families. It is not surprising that North Carolina, officially and otherwise, has long ignored protests from Tennessee, choosing in 1985 to approve a five- year extension of Champion's waste-water discharge permit, even though residents of Cocke County communities begged to have a say in the matter...
...engineers know that hydrogen would make a better jet fuel than the standard aviation kerosene. In its liquid form, hydrogen packs more energy per pound than any other non-nuclear fuel and, burning, produces a plume of H2O. But there are major drawbacks, including cost. Extracting hydrogen from water or natural gas and cooling it to -423 degrees F make the fuel many times more expensive than kerosene, which goes for about...
...control over her time: longer maternity leaves, flexible work schedules, part- time jobs. She would like to have time-saving conveniences that most Western women take for granted: electric mixers, cars, supermarkets for one- stop shopping. In many rural areas, the wish list is more fundamental: central heating, running water, sewerage. And everywhere, women share the sentiment expressed by Anna, 28, a language student at Moscow State University: "Soviet women don't want equality. We want more time at home with our children...
...closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...
...years, U.S. and Soviet space scientists have agreed that Mars is a tantalizing target for exploration. Fragmentary data suggest that the planet may once have possessed a denser atmosphere, a warmer climate and even bodies of water. Many questions about life on Mars remain unanswered. So when Mikhail Gorbachev again declared only days before the Moscow summit that the U.S. and Soviet Union should "cooperate on a flight to Mars," ears perked up in labs and offices from Los Angeles to Moscow. Even the Reagan Administration, which has balked at similar Soviet overtures, was at pains not to dismiss...