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...They dump their slops in the street...
...welfare. That would remove from the federal budget programs that now account for spending of around $90 billion a year. Though Reagan has not stressed that plan lately, he has never disavowed it; his aides insist that it has been misunderstood. The impression got around that Reagan would simply dump those programs on states and cities, which would have to raise taxes sharply to pay for them. Actually, Reagan would earmark a portion of the federal income tax collected in each state and locality to be kept there to finance the activities dropped by Washington...
...because the federal government decided that the Buffalo Mining Company couldn't dump this refuse-filled water into Buffalo Creek anymore (where it killed all the fish), the company began to build the first of three dams that would create ponds where it could dump the water. And the company could also kill two birds with one stone: it would build the dams out of the gob pile that just lay smoldering beside the mine--unhealthy situation that. You couldn't really call it a dam--no engineering, no overflow, no drains, just back some trucks up to the hollow...
...even more improbable. At night, Central Park features Shakespeare (which Trollope finds surprisingly good) and muggings ("Cut-purses," says Dickens smugly). A most unusual event, they discover, is a relay of 27 "Liberty Torch" runners who will carry water from the Atlantic Ocean across the entire country and dump it into the Pacific. The purpose, like the water, is unclear...
...Lockheed-related wrongdoing. Miki's supporters counter that the real worry of many in the L.D.P. is that the Premier's careful investigation will badly tarnish the reputations of some important party figures. Party Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor Kakuei Tanaka after disclosures of large-scale corruption...