Word: pulps
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...imposing name Council on Economic Priorities. Its sole product is research-not into companies' economic records but into their performance as members of society. Last week the Council issued its most ambitious report to date, a 400-page survey of how the nation's 24 biggest pulp and paper producers have responded to the growing demand for a cleaner environment...
...Russia, a huge chemical plant was built right beside a beloved tourist attraction: Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's gracious country estate. Unmonitored fumes are poisoning Tolstoy's forests of oak and pine, and powerless conservationists can only wince. With equal indifference, the Soviet pulp and paper industry has settled on the shores of Lake Baikal. No matter how fully the effluents are treated, they still defile the world's purest waters...
...course of the novel, first with Munger in a YMCA gym and then with a shrewd Mexican before a complacent chicano crowd. Between thesetwo smallest of small-time bouts, he reflects on his past and present rootlessness, and satisfies his need for some kind of transcendent reality by reading pulp movie-fan magazines. The variety of his life is the variety of fleabag hotels the city of Stockton offers him. Drinking, desperately trying to love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real contender or raised a family but for his damning insecurities, Tully...
...works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums...
Death March. Each day Fuji's 150 paper mills pour 2,000,000 tons of raw waste into Tagonoura's waters. The catch of cherry-blossom prawns, a gourmet delicacy unique to the area, has been halved in recent years. Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 ft. to 18 ft.-too shallow for even small freighters...