Word: cleanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, all this is very far from the image of Utopia that was so seductive in the '60s and early '70s. Perhaps the pursuit of Utopia has become small bore everywhere, concentrating on traffic control, garbage compactors and the blessed ability to breathe even half-clean air. The loss seems greater in California because there the expectations were so much greater than elsewhere. If the continent once seemed to tip west, allowing all things unattached to roll to the Golden State on the Pacific, it has by now regained its equilibrium. California has clearly lost the magic...
Since it breezed through Congress in 1970, the Clean Air Act has significantly improved the atmosphere Americans must breathe. Sulfur dioxide levels are down by 30% and sooty particles by 33%. Cars, too, are less polluting as Detroit struggles to meet tough emissions standards. Yet for all the progress, air quality in most major U.S. cities and industrial regions is still below the goals set seven years ago. Now a drive to clear the air has set off the fiercest environmental fight in years...
...murky clauses clarified and loopholes plugged, but industry and labor-including the 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers -are arguing that the economy is sometimes more important than the ecology. In response, the House has passed an amendment to the 1970 act that seriously undermines the nation's clean-air standards, while the Senate favors legislation that holds the environmental lines. So wide is the gulf that Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, a principal author of the original bill, fears a long, hot summer. Says he: "Reaching agreement will test the legislative process to its limit." The main...
NONATTAINMENT. Because areas that do not meet the 1970 act's minimal clean-air requirements cannot legally attract more polluting industry, the EPA last fall announced a Solomonic compromise: it would permit new factories and power plants in a "nonattainment" area if their pollution was offset by curbs on existing emissions. It is under such an arrangement that Volkswagen is building its first U.S. assembly plant-in New Stanton, Pa. Yet the imaginative offset policy has touched off howls from industry, and the Carter Administration wants another year to study its effects. In a surprising reversal, the House voted...
...characters' own musings on art and literature occasionally sound as pretentious or ridiculous as the New Yorker at its worst--("Art was a process of conversion, a machine that could turn even garbage into something clean and glistening...