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...seven-page document is officially the product of only the eight bishops on the commission, but it was approved by the hierarchy's four-member executive committee, and has been getting widespread back ing from other bishops, though Emmett Cardinal Carter, the Archbishop of Toronto, says it is "risky" for the church to get into specifics on economics...
...word on the screen, and presto!, a swirling water turbine appears. A different set of screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate it. According to Emmett Cunningham of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the genial director of the exhibit, "It's the best and most durable public information system I've seen in 25 years in the exposition business...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...
...that they are doing everything possible to ease the plight of Poletowners. Besides offering owners a "fair price" for their properties, the city claims it is paying out generous benefits (up to $15,000 for home owners and $4,000 for renters) to help defray resettlement costs. According to Emmett Moten, Detroit's industrial development director, the city is also purchasing federally owned housing units for Poletowners and offering them mortgages at a bargain 9.5% interest. Detroit hired a professional gerontologist to help assess the impact of the move on the elderly, who make up about half of those...
...frontespiece of the Spectator, for example, is a column written by editor R. Emmett Tyrell and titled "The Continuing Crisis," which diagnoses the grave illnesses of America by pointing to symptoms. This month, Tyrell dislikes Bill Walton ("tiresome proponent of New Age claptrap," "Marxist-Leninist thumper for health food"), liberation theologists, and the Washington press corps (who need a "manual on the fundamentals of courtesy"). There are signs of recovery, though; President Reagan has restored "dignity to realms where there recently had been mawkishness and amateurism unsurpassed in American history," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig has refused Soviet ambassador...