Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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After two years of investigation, the New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc., a respected private organization, charges that 66 companies dump nearly 10 million gal. of contaminated waste water each day into eleven municipal sewerage systems on Long Island. Since none of these systems can treat toxic wastes, claims the report, the drinking water for some 3 million residents is "in danger of deteriorating into a severely contaminated industrial sewer...
...knowing who will become ill in any given population or what ailments will be caused by the exposure. Scientists might be able to find out by giving selected people precise amounts of chemicals for specific lengths of time and comparing these human guinea pigs with a control group that has not been exposed. But such experiments would raise proper howls of indignation. So the disease detectives must rely on less direct methods...
...using low-cost foreign steel, some American steelworkers will lose their jobs. Higher oil prices will encourage Exxon to explore for new domestic energy sources, but motorists will have to pay more for gasoline. In short, America's economic problems can be solved, but not without hurting some group in society...
...title song of her new abum For the Working Girl, sultry Melissa Manchester rails against male chauvinists like some roadies and back-up bandsmen. But since she tuned out her six-piece rock group for a full orchestra, touring has become a nonsexist family affair. Her father, David Manchester, 60, former bassoonist with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, occasionally hits the road with her, and has been instrumental on Melissa's last two orchestrated pop-rock records. Sister Claudia Cagan, 34, sings backup, and Mother Ruth creates some of her costumes. Manchester, 29, is even getting some help up front...
Doctorow is indeed playing a variation on an old theme: the American dream, set to the music of an American nightmare, the Depression. Much of the book's plot is generated by a single gathering of characters in 1936. A group of gangsters and their girlfriends travel to Loon Lake, the 30,000-acre Adirondack retreat of their host, Millionaire F.W. Bennett. The Mob runs an industrial service, which actually means spying, strikebreaking and union busting, and Bennett has been having more than a spot of trouble with the workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. workers...