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...operated by Waste Management, Inc., at its C.I.D. Hazardous Waste landfill in Chicago. A giant excavation 35 ft. deep covers two acres. A floor of compacted clay approximately 40 ft. thick has been laid below the bottom of the hole. On top of this virtually impermeable bed, workmen are placing a plastic liner to be topped by a plastic-grid system that will collect and direct any seepage into a series of sump pumps. Above the grid will be another plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic. A plumbing system will pump rainwater out of the area...
...crew of Coop workmen quickly carted away the fragments of the sign to the Coop warehouse. They said the sign would be thrown away...
...fragile 18-year-old loser, walked to the net to shake hands with his uncle. Ellen was so proud of the open, pleasant look Bryan managed to maintain . . . She knew how much that look cost." The wishes of Grandfather are, in fact, imperious demands; the grumbling about local workmen disguises arrant and irrational prejudice...
...boys, Ricardo, 16, and Jorge, 15, work in the family business, changing and repairing tires, while Leticia, 14, helps keep the books. The girls also do many of the household chores, because their mother badly twisted her back five years ago while lifting boxes at a local garment factory. Workmen's compensation paid for surgery on her spine, and her resident's status was never at issue...
Taxable income. Middle-class and lower-income families would have to pay tax on many types of income that now escape federal levies. Unemployment compensation, workmen's compensation for injuries, and miners' black-lung benefits would be fully taxable, while at present, unemployment payments are taxable only to families whose income exceeds $18,000 a year and the other two types not at all. Employees would have to include in taxable income $120 a year of medical-insurance premiums paid by their bosses if single, $300 if married and filing joint returns. Of particular concern to the middle class, individuals...