Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"Mr. Attorney General, I think your policy of wholesale lawsuits in pollution cases is lousy."
After this blunt exchange with an executive of a large chemical company, Illinois Attorney General William Scott Jr. haled the corporation to court for fouling the air with "divers noxious fumes, gases and chemical substances." It was typical of more than 200 lawsuits that Scott has brought against the state...
Scott treats blue-chip polluters as firmly as other prosecutors do the Mafia. His list of defendants facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined...
One polluter just shrugs: "Scott is running for higher office, no question about it." If so, he has the right background. A graduate of the Kent College of Law, Scott rose to vice president of Chicago's National Boulevard Bank before winning election as state treasurer in 1964 and...
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