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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics accuse EPA of being too cautious in failing to rely more heavily on such destruction technologies as high-temperature incineration and in failing to back innovative approaches for detoxifying chemical wastes (see box). EPA has projects under way in these fields, but the pace is slow, the funding inadequate, and there is little sense of urgency. Barbara Vecchiarelli, a citizens'-group leader in Marlboro Township, N.J., admires Daggett's dedication to his work but, nonetheless, complains about EPA in general: "They don't have the technology to handle chemical pollution. The problem is bigger than they are, and they...
STEVE TESICH IS a master of the "sleeper" film. Such past screenplays of his like Breaking Away and Four Friends overcame lukewarm box office receptions to become favorites on TV and cable. Tesich writes movies that are humanly endearing that grab an older audience even if they leave the Rambo crowd unflexed...
...Mohawk sails through Mass. Ave. traffic on a skateboard. His T-shirt reads "Arm the Poor," and Paul Weller comes calling from the belly of a boom box...
With Liz Taylor watching from the St. Louis box--but wearing a Los Angeles warmup jacket--the Dodgers drubbed the visiting Cardinals, 4-1, in the opening game of the National League Championship Series. Los Angeles benefited from the fine pitching performance of the true-blue tandem of Fernando Valenzuela and Tom Niedenfuer...
...achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...