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...financial effects of which are startling. About $4 billion of the $20.4 billion spent on Superfund cleanups so far has been consumed solely by lawyers and filing fees. Of the $1.3 billion paid out by insurers, nearly 90% has been eaten by litigation and related costs, according to Jan Acton, co-author of a Rand Corp. report. Companies have spent an estimated 15% of their entire Superfund expenditure, or $1.3 billion, on litigation. Meanwhile, the problem of toxic dumps is rapidly getting worse: new sites are being added faster than old ones are being cleaned up. Only...
...care if the man shows up in love beads and says, 'Everybody do your own thing'; he'd still have to go." Dorothy Healey, a longtime foe who left the party in 1973 but still has pipelines into it, agrees. "It's like that old Lord Acton saying: 'Power corrupts,' " says Healey. "It's very sad because it's not just the Communist Party but the left that has to come to terms with a new reality." Says Hall defensively: "I've always said we'd be a dead party if we didn't have differences...
That argument may temporarily assuage war-scarred Nicaraguans, who yearn for prosperity and peace. But investing a single unelected official -- even one as able as Lacayo -- with so much authority is contrary to the spirit of democracy, and calls to mind Lord Acton's theorem about the corrosive effect of absolute power...
...demands are even worse. During training, Wylie must travel 40 minutes each way to Acton, Mass. for practices that are often four hours long. In addition, the "Eat-To-Win" diet has proven difficult to keep up in the Eliot House dining hall...
...prime example of "greentailing," or riding the wave of the environmental movement. The eco-chain started life in 1973 as one small shop near the University of California, Berkeley, campus run by a pair of Peace Corps veterans. Today the Nature Co., owned by the CML Group of Acton, Mass., has 54 stores and is moving into Europe and Japan. Sales this year are expected to hit $90 million, up 29% from...