Word: smelter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first Stewartt had a tough job explaining to earthbound environmentalists how Lighthawk might be useful. That changed after a successful four-year fight that led to the shutdown of the smoke-belching Phelps Dodge copper smelter at Douglas, Ariz., a notorious contributor to the West's airborne sulphur-dioxide levels. Now Stewartt, with five salaries to guarantee, two planes to maintain and the costly prospect of buying three more, spends half his time raising money. He has no house, no wife and lives out of a flight...
...Baby Boomers whose higher education was not rewarded with higher earnings, a certain bewilderment. "I certainly expected to live as well as my parents," says Audrey Burnam, 35, a research psychologist at UCLA who lives in a rented two-bedroom apartment while her father, who works at a copper smelter in Arizona and never graduated from high school, owns his own three-bedroom house. "I certainly expected to be able to afford a home. I am comforted," she sighs, "that this is happening to a whole generation...
...their uninhibited style of royal excursion. With her nimble spontaneity, Diana is invigorating the staid ritual of the walkabout, the traditional version of which presents a gloved and hatted royal frowning to show interest as a dusty foreman laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen with both doors wide open. A sheepish Charles turned to one man and said, "Does your...
...Wednesday in the San Antonio home of Hortencia Cabrera, mother of 14. To call attention to industrial pollution, Jackson on Wednesday also visited the West Dallas housing project apartment of Sarah Dean, whose five-year-old daughter Africia suffers from lead poisoning believed to be caused by a nearby smelter...
Ordinarily, the rugged mountain towns of Morenci and Clifton are close-knit in an almost feudal way, drawn together by their common employer. Morenci (pop. 2,700), dominated by the huge white pit of the copper mine and the two monster smokestacks of the smelter, is the archetypal company town. Phelps Dodge, which has enjoyed a reputation as a generous employer, owns the water and electric utilities, the county hospital, the gas station, the motel, the bowling alley, the high school and a new Spanish-style shopping center featuring the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Co. (easy credit terms). Workers earn...