Word: dumps
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...much as New Englanders have done for three centuries, to govern themselves. These town meetings are exemplars of grass-roots democracy, but they rarely deal with issues of national, much less international, significance. This year was different. On agendas throughout the state, tucked between routine budget matters and garbage-dump disputes, was a motion calling for a moratorium on the spread of nuclear weapons. In all but 31 of the 192 towns voting, the motion was approved. "The people of Vermont," said Patrick Leahy, their Democratic Senator, "are way ahead of the Congress and the Administration on this issue...
...licensing process to allow 33 more plants to come on line in the next two years. He has also endorsed federal financing of radioactive waste disposal. This is vital to the industry now that Gulf Oil Co. and Allied Corporation plan to close down their Barnwell, S.C. waste dump, which currently handles most of the radioactive waste generated on the East Coast. Small wonder that Carl Waske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, expressed "ecstasy, joy, pleasure and euphoria" at Reagan's election--on virtually every issue, the administration has taken the industry's side...
...governor of California. Ronald Reagan tried to dump statewide programs onto localities, which responded by raising taxes dramatically. The result, several years later, was a massive property tax revolt that swept dozens of incumbents from office. Reagan, however, escaped blame; by then, he had left office and was off and running for the White House. This time, we hope he is not so lucky. Congress should reject his New Federalism and expose it for what it really is: the President's latest ploy to escape responsibility for the virtual war he has declared on America's needy...
...addition, Gorsuch has cut spending on every major EPA program, including the one that she says deserves top funding priority: the new $1.6 billion "superfund" to clean up abandoned toxic dump sites. She has also urged major retrenchments in the Clean Air Act; late last week she proposed a three-year delay and substantial weakening of impending carbon monoxide emission standards for heavy gasoline-fueled trucks. Mistrustful of the presumed environmentalist bias of career EPA employees, she has centralized control. Research scientists now cannot release findings until they have been approved as "appropriate" by four levels of the bureaucracy; public...
...advantage of the other's offensive impotence to nail down the win. So when B.C. hoopsters Jane Haubrich and Kerry Murphy each looped in a bucket with less than a minute to go--putting their team in the lead, 42-38--the Crimson did not have enough time to dump in two tying baskets. Freshman forward Wendy Joseph pocketed a two-pointer with nine seconds remaining, but Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder had depleted her allocated timeouts for the game, and the Eagles simply ran out the clock...