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Rising Cost. Those words are not as bland as they sound. The CEQ's 597-page report describes how far the nation has come in cleaning up its environment-and how much is left to be done. To curb pollution by 1982, CEQ says, the nation must spend about 1% of its gross national product every year on environmental safeguards, or a total of $195 billion. Most of the money will be paid by consumers, as industries and state and local governments pass along the costs of antipollution equipment. Last year the annual per capita charge for environmental protection...
...critically the strategic position of General Brown) sounded off against the Jews in much the same way, all hell broke loose. Lindbergh's reputation for noble-mindedness was indelibly stained, and he carried the mark with him until his death. In contrast, the American people reacted with bland indifference to General Brown's blatant expression of bigotry. Were it not for some sections of the American press, his speech would not even have caused a ripple...
...four local TV stations and ten radio stations, but only two daily papers. The morning Eagle (circ. 129,000) and the evening Beacon (58,000) are both owned by the absentee Ridder chain and share a single editorial staff. Efforts to organize a quality paper to compete with the bland Eagle and Beacon have repeatedly failed...
Buren is not bad at sounding like St. Just, but-alas for the purity of his sentiments-the Museum of Modern Art now enters, arms hospitably outstretched, clutching this inoffensive guerrilla to its bosom. If you look closely, you can just see the Burens in the MOMA show: four bland panels of black-and-white stripes, cut to the size of the museum windows and pasted up. What Buren's work really seems to be about is words: vacuous configurations gift-wrapped in fighting language, revealing the curiously transparent game of certification by which art posturers now proclaim their...
Mark S. Granovetter, assistant professor of Sociology and head tutor in the department, predicts that tutors' statements about students are "going to be pretty bland." The ultimate bugbear here, head tutors say, is the student with "emotional problems," whose tutor will avoid aggravating the condition by not reporting it to the next tutor. That tutor, the story goes, then needs a semester just to find out what his predessor could have passed on in one confidential memo...