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...strongly suggests that acid rain combines with traces of toxic metals emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning plants to leach away nutrients that sustain trees. In addition, scientists believe the mixture of acid rain and aluminum trace elements in the soil is absorbed by roots and can choke off a tree's water supply...
...peak on which Lord Olivier finds himself now, nearly 50 years after he posed for the artist. The first actor to be elevated to the peerage in the 600-year history of the House of Lords, he has so many honors that even he sometimes seems to choke on the incense. At 75 he has decided it is time to blow away some of the smoke and tell his own story. His autobiography, which he aptly titles Confessions of an Actor, Laurence Olivier, came out in Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next month (Simon & Schuster...
...economic news, a maddeningly familiar mixture of plus and minus signs. The pluses: lower interest rates, higher housing starts, more stock-market exuberance. Big minus: very sluggish production. The Congress to be chosen next week will have to decide how to trim gargantuan budget deficits that threaten to choke off the recovery whenever it does come...
...weeks ago, Helms was unable to choke off a similar filibuster against his bill to ban abortion. The school prayer legislation, like the abortion measure, was attached to a bill raising the national debt ceiling (from $1.143 trillion to $1.29 trillion). But before the Senate could vote on school prayer, Helms and his supporters needed to muster 60 votes to invoke cloture and shut off the talkathon against the bill spearheaded by Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut...
...impatient waiting while the Administration and Congress focused on economic matters, the New Right and its allies at last had a fighting chance to pass the most controversial item on their social agenda: legislation to ban abortion. But after three futile attempts to muster the votes necessary to choke off a liberal filibuster, the most conservative Senate in more than a generation abandoned the effort and voted 47 to 46 last week to table the issue...