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Protesting progress: Intel faces opposition despite its efforts to create high-paying jobs. (New Mexico plant criticized on environmental grounds; includes related article on new approaches to industrial recruitment)

Intel's huge Rio Rancho, NM, semiconductor factory is the one of the state's largest employers, but the state may reject the firm's application to renew its water use and air pollution permits. The plant emits large amounts of smog-producing volatile organic compound (VOC) pollutants.

When Randall Lujan was mustered out of the Army after the Persian Gulf war, he returned to his native Albuquerque to look for a job. After three months of pounding the pavement, he received a few lukewarm offers--mostly from service companies that paid less than the military. Then he applied to Intel, the giant semiconductor manufacturer whose plant near Albuquerque makes almost one third of the world's ...

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