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Throughout the morning, Lashman replied to the committee's criticism by saying the Dukakis budget meets the state's committments on education, mental health, the homeless, hazardous waste cleanup and the environment...
...shopping malls, industrial parks and apartment buildings. Even though the substance poses only a minimal health risk in most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster in the closet," says Richard Jones, a Connecticut attorney who represents mortgage lenders. "People's reaction is visceral. It has a very chilling effect...
...Kremlinologists read potentially ominous portents into the recent emergence of other Soviet officials into the limelight. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has assumed an increasingly high profile, particularly in dealing with the post-earthquake cleanup operation in Armenia. Shevardnadze is also a familiar face on the evening news these days, as is Yegor Ligachev, the dour conservative who has worked at softening his brusque image since being bumped from the de facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others...
...lack of personal discipline on the part of its 6.8 million inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act. Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks...
...Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...