Word: planted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would rather have people on a family basis settled wherever they can find a job or a home. If you cannot supply them with either a job or a home, then what are you doing? You are creating a really bad situation. In the city they cannot even plant vegetables to eat. At least in the rural parts they have more to live off of if they haven't got a job. In the city you get an awful slum condition...
ONCE UPON A TIME, Harvard had a brilliant idea. Forecasting increases in energy prices and decreases in supply, the University decided to build the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). MATEP, designed to provide energy to the medical schools and Harvard's affiliated teaching hospitals, would be the largest co-generation plant in America. On paper, it looked great--steam chilled water and heat all from the same diesel engines, and $2 million in annual savings...
...Harvard's concern for its energy future was farsighted, however, its failure to recognize the plant's potential impact on the community was inexcusable. The University ploughed ahead with its plans, advancing huge sums of money for its pet project. Harvard had to know that its diesel engines would produce nitrogen dioxides--said to be harmful to human and animal health in certain doses--but it sidestepped the problem. When community groups in the Mission Hill area broached the subject, the University blanched--and hired teams of experts to do air pollution impact studies...
...piles of facts and figures power plant officials and witnesses mustered to the defense proved ineffective. When a state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) hearing officer said MATEP could not install its diesels, the University was stuck with a white elephant and increasing town-gown tensions. Confused, frustrated--some might even say desperate--MATEP asked the DEQE to let the diesels be installed. The DEQE did not respond at first. Only recently, when a DEQE official recommended that the plant's diese's be installed could Harvard breathe a little easier...
...time that everybody involved--the community, the DEQE and MATEP--find out just what the power plant's impact on the community will be. All the computer-generated studies in the world mean nothing; the plant must be tested under actual operating conditions. DEQE Deputy Commissioner David Fierra, who will make the final decision on the plant, must stop finding excuses to delay his decision and give MATEP the go-ahead...