Word: burning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OTHER KEY PLAYERS: big senior offensive tackle Joe Kross, durable senior middle guard Tom McDevitt, senior tight end Paul Sablock, and Wayne Moore, a senior halfback with speed to burn...
...language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...
Ohio has a problem with sulfur dioxide air pollution, and the EPA has ordered its utilities to meet strict limits on smokestack emissions. But to burn Ohio's high-sulfur coal, say the companies, would necessitate installing expensive scrubbing devices. They rebelled at the cost; one utility reckoned that compliance with the EPA order could cause a 24% rise in electric rates. Instead, the companies said, they would import low-sulfur coal from Western or Appalachian states. That in turn riled the miners, who argue that if the utilities buy out-of-state coal, demand for Ohio coal will...
...miners want relief under an amendment to the 1977 Clean Air Act sponsored by Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum. This empowers the President, on an EPA recommendation, to force utilities to burn local coal and still meet pollution standards when other measures (like using out-of-state coal) would cause "economic disruption." Whoever finally wins, someone must lose: either electricity users, miners or the living, breathing residents of Ohio...
...gravity. In a star like the sun, the battle between radiation and gravity is long stalemated; the sun has been shining for some 5 billion years and will remain relatively unchanged for another 5 billion. After the star exhausts most of the hydrogen near its core and begins to burn hydrogen in its outer regions, it swells into a red giant. When the sun reaches this stage, its hot gases will envelop Mercury, Venus and the earth...