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...drill for offshore oil--and to do it successfully, to do it safely, and to do it within the confines of all the regulations the government has placed...
...guard the hens?") and breaks frequently into first-person to stress-a point or tell a sad little story about a friend ruined by low scores--sprinkling his pages with "I think" and "It seems to me" in the fashion that English teachers work for years to drill out of expository essays...
Going over the day's drill, Reagan is also resigned to a packed agenda. He will not have time to change for dinner that night at the vice presidential mansion. Glancing down at the new dark blue suit he is wearing, he says, "I looked at the schedule. I'm already dressed...
That case points to the central issue between Watt and environmentalists: their fear that he will let private oil and mining companies dig, drill and scrape at will on Western public lands. Says Chuck Malick, president of the High Country Citizens Alliance in Crested Butte, Colo.: "The West is being given away. We will become an energy colony for the East and West coasts...
...elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...