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Citizen groups in sprayed areas are organizing, motivated by evidence that spray drift causes severe environmental and health damage...
...lifted their prime lending rate to businessmen a quarter of a point to 9¼%- the highest level since February 1975. A really tight credit squeeze could tip the economy into recession, but right now the outlook is for interest rates to peak later this year and begin to drift down...
...opposite: "We need a Pope who overcomes the confusion over what it means to be a Catholic. The seminaries are a shambles. We need clear directives about what the church stands for, clear lines for dissent." Baker and McBrien agree that a middle-of-the-roader will only enhance drift and decline...
...hooked the lines to towering outriggers and began a slow drift that would take us 30 miles north before dawn. The once deserted sea suddenly seemed like a freeway at rush hour. Huge tankers glided out of the night, quiet as cats. Flickering orange lights marked the miles-long strands of line set by commercial fishermen. A minicity blossomed around us -the lights of other fishing boats, and perhaps a marijuana smuggler...
...frequently worked. As instrumentals and background vocals become more predominant in Dylan's work, however, he can no longer side-step lines with a snarl. For example, the bouncy style of "True Love Tends To Forget" gives him no way to sing the lines "I saw you drift into infinity and come back again" without sounding stupid. In the worst songs of the album-"True Love," "We Better Talk This Over" and "New Pony"-the lyrics fall flat, while the instrumentals and heavy back-up vocals in the choruses compound the injury by making the tunes well-night indistinguishable from...