• Even as Syracuse's population topped out at 221, 000 in 1950, the city's smokestack-based economy began belching.

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  • Critics argued that rules designed to regulate 19th-century smokestack industries could not be applied to the computer business.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft

  • The same controls used to cut sulfur, meantime, are also removing the mercury before it exits the smokestack.

    FORBES: Coal Plants Belching Out Less Mercury

  • Black smoke rose from the chapel's smokestack, signifying no choice had been made, and the cardinals adjourned for the day.

    WSJ: With Speech, Cardinal Set Path to Papacy

  • O'Neill left government after Ford lost in 1976 and spent 23 years turning cyclical smokestack companies into sturdy profit centers.

    CNN: Turnaround Guy

  • The process that smokestack "scrubbers" use to reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions creates high-quality synthetic gypsum, said Robert E.

    CNN: Turning toxic coal ash into bridges, buildings

  • Val Barton, of the Campaign Against the Incineration of Rubbish, lives under the smokestack of the Byker Incinerator in Newcastle upon Tyne.

    BBC: You are in: UK Politics

  • Unlike their U.S. counterparts, most of Europe's cheapest smokestack stocks barely budged.

    FORBES: Bargains And Dogs

  • The idea is to strip carbon dioxide--a greenhouse gas--out of the smokestack.

    FORBES: Rocket Science

  • The pressure for them to do so is increasing as they shut old smokestack factories and redevelop the land for other uses.

    ECONOMIST: Toxic waste in Japan

  • If Mr Holliday wants to convince the world that DuPont is becoming green, perhaps he should consider living downwind from its dirtiest smokestack.

    ECONOMIST: Chemicals

  • Group relationships also make the banks large lenders to much weaker big companies in smokestack industries such as steel, chemicals and shipbuilding at below-market interest rates.

    ECONOMIST: Money for nothing

  • The suspicion is that the buyout firm that controlled the smokestack company, Saratoga Partners, was looking to leverage it up and extract a tasty dividend.

    FORBES: Old King Coal

  • At that point, attention focused on the world's only point of contact with the cardinals: A slim smokestack protruding from the top of the Sistine Chapel.

    WSJ: Black Smoke Signals No New Pope

  • You would never know that the graceful brick smokestack on the north edge of town belonged to what was once the largest rope factory in the world.

    FORBES: A Cautionary Tale From America's Hometown

  • During the protest on Monday, some of the Greenpeace campaigners chained themselves to the station's conveyor belt, while others abseiled down the smokestack in protest at E.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Kent | Protesters end power plant action

  • Peabody Energy is one of the world's largest miners of coal, an ancient commodity given new luster by the shortage of petroleum and by advances in smokestack scrubbers.

    FORBES: Picks of the Pros

  • However, beyond the smokestack, looking at the full life-cycle accounting for carbon of various biomass feedstocks, other reports have found that the source of the feedstock matters.

    FORBES: Massachusetts Addresses "Biomass Loophole" and Limits Subsidies

  • Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out a few minutes past 7 p.m.

    NPR: Argentine Jorge Bergoglio Elected Pope Francis

  • Economists have come up with many theories as to why this is so, including the idea that low-priced stocks tend to be in smokestack industries, where companies can simply fade away due to obsolescence.

    FORBES: Primate Economics

  • The election of the new pope was announced to the world as is tradition of the church with a vigorous puff of white smoke from the smokestack of the Sistine Chapel, where 115 cardinals had been sequestered since Tuesday evening to pick Catholicism's new leader.

    WSJ: Argentina's Cardinal Bergoglio Elected Pope

  • The only time I recall being scornful of shoddy goods was when a huge brick smokestack fell on and obviously killed the hero of a serial, "Don Winslow of the Navy, " and the following week's installment began with Commander Don emerging from a mountain of rubble.

    WSJ: The Hobbit | A Middling Middle-earth

  • We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago in the light of an industrial revolution, that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge to be thrown into the workplace quickly, the smokestack school in more than one sense.

    ECONOMIST: The Economist Debate Series: Education: The Proposition's closing statement | The

  • Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.

    WSJ: The Library's Future Is Not an Open Book | By Julie V. Iovine | Public Library Renovation

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