Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order that all federally owned vehicles must use no-lead or low-lead gas. His theory is excellent; such fuels reduce hydrocarbon emissions polluting the air by as much as 20%. But in effect, Washington was merely setting a good example. The Federal Government's 600,000 cars burn only one-half of 1% of the nation's yearly consumption of 85 billion gallons of gas-and 276,000 of those official cars have high-compression engines that cannot use low-lead gas. Though Nixon urged all Governors to follow suit, no state or local government has given...
...Bruins lost their biggest offensive threat when halfback Gary Bonner was ejected from the game along with Princeton co-captain and linebacker Dennis Burn late in the first quarter. Bonner had just scored on a 20-yard run to give Brown a short-lived, 7-0 lead...
America is so rich that it has money to burn. In fact, the Treasury Department and most of the nation's 36 Federal Reserve Banks and branches are now incinerating (and then replacing) worn-out bills at the rate of $9 billion a year. The department has now faced up to the fact that this conflagration is a source of air pollution...
...today's racial strife. In its bloody account of an 1864 massacre of a Cheyenne tribe, Soldier Blue announced in labored fashion that the U.S. military is more barbaric than it cares to admit. But whatever their weaknesses, both films were at least rooted in historical truth. Burn!, by the usually brilliant Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers), lacks even that validity. Instead, it is a much-too-convenient contrivance for the director's comments on Viet Nam and racial agony...
...setting is the fictitious Lesser Antillean island of Queimada (Portuguese for "burn") in the 1830s. Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is an adventurer employed by the British Admiralty to foment a revolution in the Portuguese colony. Walker realizes that the island's blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village...