Description: Eastern pilots concerned over safety and maintenance records. They fear airline is cutting corners to reduce costs, thereby jeopardizing passengers and pilots. Jet being refueled.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1987
Description: Eastern Plane, Air Traffic Controllers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/31/1981
Description: Archaeologists dig and sift on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham for prehistoric artifacts before tides wash them away. Cape Cod excavation. Crashing ocean waves.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/20/1990
Description: Solid waste treatment facility in East Bridgewater. Front-end loader moves municipal trash. Large and metallic items separated from garbage. Rest is sorted, shredded, moved on conveyor belt to rotating drum for conversion to “eco-fuel.” Oversize pieces successively screened and reduced. Salvaged metal is sold as scrap. Plant operator describes the whole recycling process. Sand and glass removed to go to landfill. Control room with switches, monitors, gauges, failure lights. tape 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977
Description: Explanation of “eco-fuel” process from control room of East Bridgewater trash facility. End product in barrel is brown granular powder that does not absorb water. Brockton garbage truck empties load onto receiving area heaped high with raw materials. Eco II tank truck. Interview with Kathy about recycling garbage to generate electricity. Process produces a clean burning, cheaper alternative to imported oil. Remainder is buried as landfill. Local towns use this method to alleviate waste disposal burden. tape 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977
Description: William Weld intros cabinet members Richard Taylor, transportation; James Roche, public safety; Robert Cordy, legal counsel; Daniel Gregory, economic affairs,who acknowledges formidable task.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1990
Description: Dukakis will launch and reiterate his economic growth policy - "good jobs at good wages" - as focus of his post-Labor Day campaign. Susan Estrich, Christopher Edley, Jack Corrigan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/31/1988
Description: Economists Sara Johnson and Barry Bluestone say state is headed for recession because of declines in high tech, defense contracts, health care, education. Copley Place without shoppers. People in line at unemployment office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/18/1990
Description: Data Resources economic research firm concludes CLT tax rollback proposal would be disastrous for state economy. Barbara Anderson refutes the finding.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/29/1990
Description: Boston Teachers Union president Ed Doherty announces his candidacy for mayor of Boston. Says Flynn gives ‘only an illusion of leadership.’ File of teachers on strike.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/25/1991