Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percent say they have confidence in Carter on this point; 61% feel that way about Reagan. Carter is not being helped by the war between Iraq and Iran and the threat to stability in the gulf region; 60% of the voters say the conflict is no reason not to dump the incumbent. What does seem to be boosting Carter, however, is the fact that 46% of those surveyed believe Reagan might be "trigger happy," and 57% favor Carter as the candidate they "trust more not to overreact in times of crisis." Only 32% would feel safer with Reagan...
When President Carter approved the relocation of some 700 families from the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, N.Y., last May, he acted on the assumption that the old chemical dump site was, in the words of a New York State report, a "public health time bomb." But just how severely have the people of Love Canal been imperiled? Reviewing the scientific findings to date, a panel of distinguished doctors has now issued a surprising verdict. In its view, no scientific evidence has been offered that the people of Love Canal have suffered "acute health effects" from exposure...
...report, commissioned by New York Governor Hugh Carey, is sharply at odds with preliminary investigations. These had indicated that the rate of miscarriages, birth defects, asthma, and nerve disorders was significantly higher among people living near the runoff from the leaking dump site than among other residents. One researcher, hired by the EPA, claimed to have found a high incidence of chromosomal abnormalities. Such defects have been linked with spontaneous abortions, birth defects and cancer...
...from a great Louis Armstrong tune), a seaside resort where a nebbishy but successful movie director renowned for his "early comedies" is lecturing at a film symposium. The film's transparent structure is almost non-existent; Stardust Memories begins aboard a commuter train to hell (a Staten Island grabage dump?) and ends under the twinkly lights of the hotel's screening room. Along the way Allen abandons coherence, chronology, and even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality--his memories--with frightening alacrity. Like a night when the nightmares refuse to end, Allen...
Watching departments dump colleague after colleague can't help but demoralize junior faculty members, despite their foreknowledge that Harvard's assistant/associate-professor road leads nowhere. While departments are generally honest with their junior faculty members about the dismal chances for promotion, it's only natural for scholars to hope that they are the exception--and to be disappointed or even bitter when they...