Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book was put together is just as important as the text," says curator Ruth R. Rodgers, adding. "There's nothing like seeing a primary source, the actual artifact, for the first time...
...California managed to block the proposed arrangement on the ground that the Interior Department had refused to determine whether the leasing met the state's stringent environmental standards. In the new ruling, the court, overturning lower-court decisions, held that an environmental review is not required before an actual sale under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, a congressional law that gives states a voice in offshore oil development by the Federal Government...
...highest national priority, Watt announced a program to lease nearly all of the outer shelf, a total of a billion acres, in five years. He offered up huge tracts (as much as 40 million acres at a time) and cut the period between announcement of a lease to actual sale from 42 months to 22 months. Reacting to this steamroller, the states fought back with delaying tactics and a gusher of lawsuits. The result: a stalemate that held off some drilling and, not incidentally, hurt the Treasury (offshore leasing is its biggest source of revenue after taxes). As Elizabeth Raisbeck...
...PERSON getting his head beat in while others stand by watching, soon stops pretending to believe that these are just innocent by standers. He realizes, in fact, that they are hardly innocent, and in a very real sense, are actively helping the ones who are carrying out the actual assault. As someone once put it, those who aren't part of the solution are part of the problem...
...some entrepreneur will try to revive the genre of last words by enlisting videotape, a newer form of theater. Customers could write their own final script - or choose appropriate last words from the company's handsome selection ("Pick the goodbye that is you"), and then, well before the actual end, videotape their own official death scenes. The trouble is that most people tend to be windy and predictable when asked to say a few words on an important occasion. Maybe the best way to be memorable at the end is to be enigmatic. When in doubt, simply mutter, "Rosebud...