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...would be easy to dismiss Smith and Keller as just a couple of upstate kooks with a harebrained scheme. But from the beginning, virtually everyone involved -- engineers and environmentalists, utility executives and officials at the Department of Energy -- has agreed that the Otisca coal/water slurry process is a solid idea. Acknowledges W. Henson Moore, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy: "This precleaning process of theirs looked very good to the experts...
While the natural inclination is to dismiss Robb as merely another member of the lunatic fringe, one cannot so easily dismiss the forces that drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January...
...found the wherewithal to release an economic plan. And this is not intended to echo the charge that Clinton merely panders to voters according to poll numbers. His willingness to anger some of his most dependable voters--however calculated it may be--should be enough to dismiss the idea...
...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...
Held said the letter was "filled with misrepresentations, distortions and outright lies" and "smacked of standard anti-Semitic fare." A former Hillel coordinating council co-chair who was quoted anonymously in Counter's letter asked the College to dismiss the director...