Word: cadillacs
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Some parts of the West will remain vulnerable with or without conservation. Southern California gets roughly half of its water from a single canal system, the California Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sacramento River Delta 800 km (500 miles) south to Los Angeles. Mark Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, an examination of Western water, notes that the delta is sinking by as much as 7.6 cm (3 in.) a year, leaving the area, much of it already below sea level, ever more vulnerable to seawater intrusion. A major earthquake on the nearby Hayward fault could destroy the levees that...
...What is Cadillac...
...nice diversion: a punitive hullabaloo, casting the NEA as the patron, if not of Commies, then of blasphemers, elitists and sickos. The arts grant becomes today's version of the Welfare Queen's Cadillac. And if the NEA is trashed or even dismantled in the process, so much the better: it only shows that the post-Reagan right still has teeth...
...gray Cadillac was going more than 50 m.p.h. when it swerved off the road onto a Little League field in Riverside, Ill. By the time the car rolled to a stop, the bodies of children and parents were strewn across the infield. Ambulances came whooping and screeching to Loyola's McGaw Hospital, 23 blocks away, and the trauma team went to work. Research shows that if basic life support is used on serious trauma victims within four minutes and advanced life support within eight, nearly 50% of them survive. McGaw beat the averages. The first child was in cardiac arrest...
...them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...