Word: clifton
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...matter of theorizing. Nearly all previous massive spills have occurred in areas of moderate climate, where the waves, currents and winds of the open ocean dispersed them; the hemorrhage from the tanker Exxon Valdez is the first big spill to foul an enclosed body of cold water. Clifton Curtis, executive director of the Oceanic Society, predicts that the oil deposits on the bottom will act "as lethal time-release capsules," turning loose "harmful petroleum hydrocarbons for months and even years." Birds, fish and marine animals such as seals and otters that are not killed quickly by being coated with crude...
...tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...
...relatively short runways. Hemmed in by development, such airports will have trouble handling any significant increase in traffic. As a result, "we're heading for one of the most dramatic cases of peacetime rationing this country has ever seen," declares Philip Bakes, president of Eastern Air Lines. Says Clifton Moore, chief administrator of Los Angeles International: "There may be a time when you will have to book a flight well in advance, or pay someone for a black- market ticket." Rationing of sorts is already beginning at Boston's airport, where officials have tried to shoo away small aircraft...
Such triumphs are still rare, and there is all too little in the way of concerted multinational activity to heal the oceans. That means pollution is bound to get worse. Warns Clifton Curtis, president of the Oceanic Society, a Washington-based environmental organization: "We can expect to see an increase in the chronic contamination of coastal waters, an increase in health advisories and an increase in the closing of shellfish beds and fisheries." ) Those are grim tidings indeed, for both the world's oceans and the people who live by them...
Loraine ((sniffing)): Did you do something, Brian Bingham? Owen, can you bring Shanique a tissue? Clifton, push in your chair. Do you want to wash off the tables...