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...sulfur dioxide and other industrial emissions, have been deadlocked in Congress for years. Despite reams of study on its polluting effects, President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...
...opportunity that comes to a commander not more than once in a century," he gloated to a visitor from Washington. "We are about to destroy an entire hostile army." As the Germans plunged westward, Bradley began creating an enormous pincer to encircle them. Patton's tanks raced eastward toward Argentan while the British moved south from Caen toward
...business news service. In 1850, in the days before wire links between major European financial markets were completed, Baron Julius Reuter used a flock of carrier pigeons to send the latest stock prices from Brussels to the nearest telegraph station, some 100 miles west. By the time the eastward advance of telegraph lines made the pigeons unnecessary, Reuter had launched a general news service that today is one of the world's largest...
Like New York City's East Side, District 8 has been called a "silk stocking" area, meaning it is largely comprised of young professionals and more affluent residents. But from Back Bay and Beacon Hill, the area sprawls eastward to include the lower-middle class area of Mission Hill and the Fenway, where housing is a major problem...
...other officers stood on Mem. Drive near the Mass. Ave. Bridge, stopping each eastward-bound motorist for about 10 seconds between 10:45 p.m. and 12 midnight and warning them of the dangers of and penalties for driving while intoxicated...