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...more than half the year. As a / result, the second most populous city in the U.S. last year implemented the nation's toughest antismog regulations. United Parcel Services said last week it will comply with the new rules by converting its 2,700 delivery trucks in Los Angeles to cleaner-burning natural gas. By the year 2007, the city expects all its cars and trucks to run on cleaner fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: U.P.S. Goes Natural | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ed Meese, Call Home | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...HAVE we only learned hypocrisy? Is turning down The Club a weak attempt to stay "a little nobler, a little cleaner" than the rest of alumni, when we shamelessly accept the rest of the inherent benefits of a Harvard education...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: The Harvard Club Is Calling | 5/2/1990 | See Source »

...result of a class action she instigated. A former captain in the corrections department, Dickerson began working full time for Gulf Coast in January and helped organize this week's Second Great Louisiana March Against Poisons. "All we want," she says, "is for the air and water to get cleaner so that it doesn't pose a danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day More Heroes for Mother Nature | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would not take ten years of struggle to amend the Clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day: Will the Ballyhoo Go Bust? | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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