Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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As soon as the laws went into effect last July. Scott picked his first target. "I sent a team of our guys up to Lake County to find out why the Lake Michigan beaches were being closed. The first man to check the water supply passed out. The second man...
Lawsuits continue to spew from Scott's office in Springfield like smoke from a busy factory in East St. Louis. He is prosecuting 102 minor offenders, including several suburban garbage dumps. He is also interpreting the law in new ways. He insists, for example, that "the type of service...
Commonwealth Edison officials also say that conversion to low-sulphur coal would increase the company's fuel costs by 50%-which the consumer would eventually have to pay for in higher rates. Scott feels that the social costs of pollution outweigh purely financial considerations. Impatient with "conferences, delays and...
For Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, the Alaskan capitalist turned conservationist, Christmas brought tidings glad and sad. The good news: Hickel has won a key battle in his long struggle to save Florida's Everglades National Park. The threat to the unique aquatic park was a huge proposed airport...
Hickel's bad news came from California's Santa Barbara Channel, the scene of last January's big oil leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company...