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Such statistics have persuaded many people that some territories should be placed off limits to oil-field development. Last week the House Appropriations Committee voted to enact a yearlong ban on drilling off vast areas of the coasts of California and Florida, a 50-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic and part of New England. Congress has never before urged so sweeping a ban on offshore exploration. The committee also voted for a year's moratorium on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay, an exceedingly rich fishing area...
...outburst of altruism? Not exactly. Companies are sensibly responding to political pressures, as more and more communities enact environmental laws mandating recycling programs. Some 20 states are considering some kind of ban or restriction on nonrecycled plastics. Minneapolis and St. Paul have already passed laws that, beginning in 1990, will prohibit nondegradable and nonrecyclable plastic food containers, and a similar law will take effect this summer in Suffolk County, New York. Says John McDonald, director of environmental affairs at Continental Can, which uses recycled plastic to make detergent bottles: "We're trying to stay ahead of the issue...
...would also reorganize the regulatory bureaucracy, provide $50 million a year for the Justice Department to pursue fraud in S&Ls and enact other reforms, chief among them a requirement that thrift owners back their lending with more of their own capital...
Walsh's order calls on the police chief to prepare a report "to detail on what is being done to curtail this practice and what plan he can enact to crack down and bring to an end this violation...
...Issues. In fact, I'm sick of big issues, and I'm even more sick of the people who talk about them. The biggest issue in my life is that I'll be graduating in just two months, which means I probably will not have enough time to enact my shaving cream plan against all those people I'm sick...