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...vetoed a bill to control the ecological damage done by strip mining for coal. The result would be a slowdown, but not a reversal, of the U.S.'s environmental programs. Pointing to progress in cleaning up the Connecticut and Hudson rivers, Ford quipped: "The salmon are back. They cough a lot, but they have reappeared...
...meeting at which the seller and buyer of a house sit down with their lawyers, lenders and real estate brokers to sign the deal is usually a tense session -not least because the two principals do not yet know how much they will have to cough up in closing costs. Under a new federal law taking effect this week, they will be forewarned, if not cheered. The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act requires that the lender give both buyer and seller an itemized list of closing costs at least twelve days before settlement...
...pair of top tickets, about twice the tab in New York. No price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra, playing with precision and rich texture, expressed most of the considerable drama in Verdi...
...language of this year's Form 1040, inserted in all notices of audit an announcement that the taxpayer has the right to appeal the auditor's judgment, and published a brochure informing taxpayers of arrangements that they can make to pay off back taxes gradually rather than cough up at once or have their property seized...
...your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps, everyone runs when I yell. It'll be a fine season...