Word: acidizing
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...engineers. The copper skin had been fastened to the superstructure by means of more than 1,800 iron armature bars, all different shapes and sizes. At the rate of just twelve a day, the armatures have been replaced by individually forged steel bars. The exterior, blemished by acid rain and 100-year accretions of bird excrement, was bathed and scrubbed. Only two bits of grafting were necessary: the tip of the nose and some hair curls are new copper...
...nine ("He always said he was going to have a baseball team," confides his aunt), has a deeply developed philosophy based on the principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System," in which individuals would...
...limited to the two cited by the Justice Department: Deaver's approach last summer to then White House National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on behalf of a tax break for Puerto Rico, and his participation in a meeting last October with the special U.S. envoy to Canada concerning the acid rain issue. One new area emerged that Seymour might delve into: Deaver's approach to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler last year on behalf of his client CBS during the Ted Turner takeover bid for the network. Deaver says he merely wanted to talk about the timing of a procedural matter...
...from ever lobbying the Government on a "particular matter" in which they "personally and substantially" participated while in office. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which recommended a $5 billion clean-up plan...
...would not, however, change how he has handled his accounts. Canada signed him up because it was impressed by how he helped manage the U.S. approach to the acid-rain problem. And that approach, says Deaver, was designed solely to get the President through the Ottawa summit in harmony with the Canadians. Strange thing, he notes. Everybody seems to love the acid-rain proposal, a public-private cleanup over five years. "You'd think the conservationists would be marching for me," Deaver laughed. "I haven't seen them...