Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjectives for all this have been extravagant: new wine, fresh breeze, clean broom. They are an accurate White House measure. But what the President is doing is what most Americans have been doing all along...
...federal level, but he must do it through specific acts. Congress will soon pass a bill for public financing of presidential campaigns. Mr. Nixon said he would veto any such bill. If President Ford signs the bill into law, that will be one clear sign that he intends to clean up the political process...
When Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, its aims were laudable: to keep the nation's air clean and to protect the public from noxious fumes. The trouble was that the act's provisions, if strictly enforced, could also end construction of new factories, power plants and smelters that might belch those fumes in areas that now have clean air. Did the lawmakers intend such a curb on economic growth in undeveloped regions? The issue went to the federal courts in 1972, and the basic ruling-one that was upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court...
Environmentalists are appalled. Indeed, the Sierra Club, knowing that a Class II designation implies "significant deterioration" of clean air, threatens to go to court to overturn the EPA'S plan. Eventually, the increasingly complex issue may be tossed back into the lap of the Congress, where lawmakers may well amend the Clean Air Act to take into account an important factor ignored in the original legislation: economic needs. That kind of uniform federal regulation-coupled with continuing safeguards against overall deterioration of the air quality in the U.S.-would clearly be preferable to the legal confusion invited...
...lapse: "St. Clair is a gentleman, and he expects that when someone gives you his word, that person's telling the truth. Now how the hell can you sit the President of the U.S. down, grill him and tell him, 'You're lying, you bastard, come clean...