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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IS STILL A LANDMARK.(MAIN)
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Byline: H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- It's been called the noblest and most powerful of environmental laws, and also the most despised and feared.
When the Endangered Species Act became law 25 years ago, few lawmakers imagined the controversy it would unleash: fights pitting the protection of plants and animals against the rights of humans to own and manage their land, perform their job and meet the needs of a growing population.
``It's the most visionary environmental law that has ever been passed,'' says Interior Secretary Bruce ...
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The founding entrepreneurs: America's prosperity.(Thomas Smythe, Will Rolf, Robert Fulton, Francis Cabot Lowell, Eli Whitney, Cyrus McCormick, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie )
Magazine article from: Social Education
; The American economy has had the fastest and most dramatic development of all the world's major economies. Four hundred years ago, the economic output of the area that became the United States was negligible by world standards. Yet only 250 years later, the U.S. economy had become the largest in
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Lowell's Bustling Irish Heart
Newspaper article from: Irish Voice
; ...and involvement with Greater Lowell Entrepreneurial Network (GLEN...And if there are drawbacks to Lowell for a young woman from Dublin...helps make up the deficit. If Francis Cabot Lowell hadn't gone to England for health...
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The Lowell high-tech success story: what went wrong? (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Magazine article from: New England Economic Review
; ...development and in the future of Lowell. The article concludes with a...learned. I. Historical Overview Lowell was the second planned industrial...1) Founded on the vision of Francis Cabot Lowell, its growth and development in...
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LETTER FROM A SUFFERING CITY; Lowell Goes Through the Mill - Again
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...to buy them has not survived. Lowell has seen boom and bust more than...arrived in America from China, Lowell had earned a prominent spot in...mill with water wheels. Soon, Francis Cabot Lowell and his Boston Associates had established...
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No miracle in Lowell. (Democratic Presidential candidate Paul Tsongas and Lowell, Massachusetts)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...one individual, Tsongas, and Lowell's revitalization would not have...sense without an understanding of Lowell's place in American history...In 1810 a Boston Brahmin named Francis Cabot Lowell traveled to England and saw for...
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Of mills and momentum Since the mid-1970s, Lowell has been mostly on the upswing, while Lawrence has been in a tailspin. What can they teach other 19th-century industrial centers that are trying to make a comeback?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...congressman for both cities. "Lowell is so different from Lawrence...always was," her mother replied. Lowell was named after a dead man who stole an idea. Francis Cabot Lowell went to England in 1810, memorized...
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THE FABRIC OF LOWELL Follow the threads of mill history to find museums, tours, and a national park
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...its home here. But textiles made Lowell, and it is possible to spend a...is it wrapped? -- in cloth. Lowell owes its place in history to two...drop in the Merrimack. In 1810, Francis Cabot Lowell visited textile mills in England...
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The Roots Of `The Road';In Lowell, Mass., Celebrating Kerouac
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...my children, or the children of Lowell." There are other natives more...designed an ad campaign to promote Lowell and the Merrimack Valley using...would be of interest to tourists: Francis Cabot Lowell, a mill girl, James McNeill Whistler...
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LOWELL IS MAKING THE TRANSITION TO A `DESTINATION CITY'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...residents have never given up on Lowell and are always working to change...his family to live and work in Lowell, echoed Mercier's sentiments...that is transforming the city that Francis Cabot Lowell modeled after an early 19th century...
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FABRIC OF HISTORY MUSEUM COMPLEX IN LOWELL, MASS., CAPTURES EARLY WORK IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY BY CATHERINE WATSON MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL STAR TRIBUNE.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...the country. More than that, Lowell was also about the biggest shift...Cliff's Notes version of the Lowell story, told in a park video...1810, a Boston entrepreneur named Francis Cabot Lowell toured English factories, pretending...
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