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...growing awareness of the vast scope of the toxic-waste problem has bred much public anguish but precious little remedial action. The Office of Technology Assessment, a research arm of Congress, contends that there may be at least 10,000 hazardous-waste sites in the U.S. that pose a serious threat to public health and that should be given priority in any national cleanup. The cost, OTA estimates, could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites...
Although he had not successfully bred the two by the time the male died over the summer, he still has one quail who watches over the turtle. Dale calls them both "the ideal pets for [dorm-room] living...
...first place is at least a relief from the resigned monotony of the traditional family gatherings. While the yuppie suitor is ingenuous in his quest to become a permanent guest at the "real" old-fashioned dinners he envies, Tyler has no pretensions about the claustrophobia bred by such intimacy. Beneath the respectable bourgeois values lies a barrenness that has decayed even the excitement of sex. Macon's instinctive response to the dogtrainer Muriel's aggressive passes is the urge to confess that ever since the separation from his wife, "sex...has turned (like milk...
...reforms have also bred corruption, large-scale fraud and considerable uncertainty among segments of the population. There are signs that, faced with unexpected problems and setbacks, the Peking leadership is contemplating new approaches to redefine some of its policies. Efforts are under way to cool down a plainly overheated economy. In the ideological context, there is a tendency to describe some of the country's bolder economic strategies as "experiments...
From Archie Bunker's weekly tantrums to J.R.'s endless scheming, familiarity on TV has usually bred contentment. TV viewers are creatures of habit--or so, at least, network programmers have staunchly believed since Lucy's heyday. As the new fall season gets under way, however, that time-honored maxim is being challenged. The reason is the sudden re-emergence of a format virtually left for dead a couple of decades ago: the anthology show...