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...forth from industrial plants, a major cause of acid rain, by at least 30% before 1993. The "30% club," as the group was quickly dubbed, hopes to pressure other nations, principally the U.S., to adopt similar controls. Said Canadian Environment Minister Charles Caccia: "You can't continue to dump on us the garbage that you are producing on your own property...
...celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters and TV, he replied, "We wanted more money." It was only after his death that his estate struck...
Gulf headily rejected the bid, figuring it could get more on the market once it carried through its plans to dump its Canadian subsidiary and reorganize its refining and marketing...
...meeting, a Dennis selectman presented Studds with a petition signed by 314 residents calling for his immediate resignation because he had "de-based his manhood" and could no longer effectively represent the 10th district. Demonstrators with picket signs reading "Get the Gay Out" and "Dump Studds" also greeted the 46-year-old Congressman...
Nevertheless, Hart was counting on a strong second-place showing in New Hampshire. With a swollen pack of journalists trailing him to a shopping mall in West Lebanon and a toxic-waste dump in Londonderry (the crowd at the dump: half a dozen area residents, two police officers and 70 journalists), Hart encouraged the impression that he is in a two-man race for the nomination. Ohio Senator John Glenn, of course, believed and said the same thing for almost a year then, in Iowa, where he counted on finishing second, he staggered in fifth with less than...