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...fact, the three-year appointment to the unsalaried 18-member advisory panel, which advises Congress and the Ad ministration, was made quite deliberately. When Burford left EPA in March 1983 amid charges of mismanagement of the agency's toxic-waste-cleanup fund, Reagan told her he would eventually want her back. But the decision to make the controversial move the day before the luncheon was unplanned. Said White House Chief of Staff James Baker: "We all approved the appointment, but none of us approved the timing...
...bedroom duplex, thanks to Homes for People, a private nonprofit agency that locates low-interest loans and inexpensive materials for people willing to contribute labor to the construction of their houses. The Quiros family will put in 16 hours a week: he doing carpentry and general cleanup, she as a volunteer worker in the Homes for People office. The Owner-Builder Center in Berkeley, which has trained 8,000 people as builders and contractors, claims that a do-it-yourselfer can save up to 60% of construction costs...
...spill resulted in damages and cleanup expenses that cost the French as much as $95 million. Local communities suffered losses of an additional $30 million. About 6,000 volunteers, aided by French soldiers, skimmed, scooped and sucked up 25,000 tons of crude from beaches, rocks and harbor floors. Nonetheless, some 10,000 shore birds died from the effects of the spill, and some 5,000 tons of contaminated oysters had to be destroyed...
Harvard held on in the top of the eighth as B.U.'S leadoff hitter popped to short. The next B.U. bitter, however, hitting cleanup, put a scare into the batwomen as she tripled. Luckily the Crimson survived the threat when the next two Terriers flied out to right fielder Mary McKinnon...
President Reagan promptly pledged federal disaster relief for the stricken areas, and neighbors of the homeless provided food, clothing and shelter. Unhappily, though, the darker side of human as well as physical nature was on display. Cleanup efforts on Thursday were hindered by traffic jams that backed up two to three miles on either side of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The cars were packed with families out for some ghoulish sightseeing. -By George J. Church. Reported by Richard Hornik/Boston and JohnE. Yang/Atlanta, with other bureaus