Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...mess created? Chemical Control Corp. had signed contracts with some of the state's chemical companies and factories to dispose of their wastes. The company was supposed to solidify nontoxic materials for safe burial in landfills and detoxify the poisonous chemicals for similar disposal. Instead, the corporation just stacked the drums out back. Reacting to the fears of Elizabeth residents, state officials seized the site in March 1978 and began the slow cleanup. The companies, whose barrels were clearly labeled, included the 3M Co. and Union Carbide; the firms had no legal obligation to retrieve their drums but promptly...
...York Air is aiming to take business away from Eastern with a combination of cheaper flights and better on-board service. Instead of the round-'em-up-and-herd-'em-on shuttle treatment, New York Air will offer a free drink and food. Eastern will be fighting the competition with its guaranteed seat service, which means that any travelers showing up at the gate always get on board. Lorenzo himself took advantage of that convenience last week, when he flew the Eastern shuttle from New York to Washington because he could not wait for a reserved seat. "Good...
...most provocative economic books of the year, The Zero-Sum Society (Basic Books; $12.95), Thurow, 42, analyzes the present U.S. economic paralysis. Instead of magic buttons, he offers stringent challenges: lower levels of personal consumption, some higher taxes and less Government aid to failing companies. Thurow's solutions for the nation's ills are based on a concept borrowed from games' theory called the zero-sum game: if someone wins, someone else will have to lose. Poker, for example, is a zero-sum game. If builders beat inflation by using low-cost foreign steel, some American steelworkers...
...Instead, today's Giants are as unpredictable as the Harvard-Yale game. Last season, they beat both Los Angeles and Tampa Bay, the teams that eventually met in the NFC championship. But they also got their helmets knocked off by lowly Baltimore in the season's final game...
...long drive from Petula Clark's," he grins. And then sitting by the piano and plunking the ivories absently, his eyes look up. "Actually, I've been thinking about putting out an album called My Favorites. And instead of my cover versions of those tunes, it would just be an album of the actual cuts. Just songs that I enjoy and [in TV commercial voice] you can enjoy the same ones that I enjoy, but you'll know that those specifically are the ones that I like...