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...control well has vastly improved, environmentalists are worried that chronic, low-level oil pollution could be devastating to such rich fishing grounds as the Georges Bank off New England. They also fear that drill rigs off Alaska, a site of suspected major reserves, could be wrecked by errant ice floes, spreading crude oil over the fragile Arctic terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...Certainly some college presidents prefer that tennis club by the Pacific. You know the place: You've seen one Coppertone commercial, you've seen Stanford. Some people get mugged traversing the Cambridge Common. But at least no one in the Yard dies a violent death from runaway frisbees or errant golf balls. Stanford students like to say Palo Alto is more laid back, but there's a medical term for that: coma. We have crew races on the Charles River. Stanfordites sail on a man-made cesspool christened "Lake Lagunita." For non-Romance language afficianados that translates as "Lake Lake...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Stanford Who? | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...would control the rest of the game, the visitors answered them mighty quickly. Crimson goalie Grant Blair had to stop a Marty Dallman shot with six-and-a-half minutes left in the period, but couldn't hold the fort after Mike Sadeghpour went in alone with an errant Tim Smith pass with half a minute...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: The Lost Weekend: Icemen Tie, Lose | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...best interests of the city." Said Tony Cennamo, a WBUR-FM radio station announcer: "When I read about the ticket-fixing, I got damned crazy, almost violent. I wanted to go to Mayor White and shake him." To help douse the fury, one of the errant McGees, Colleen, 24, paid the full amount of the fines. But the space race remains. Suggests Commissioner Vitagliano jokingly: "Maybe someone will invent an inflatable car that you could drive into the city in the morning, deflate, then fold up and put in your wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spaced Out | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...table, but do not eat or drink anything while waiting. "It looks sloppy," she says. After 20 minutes of staring at the bread sticks and playing with the matches, the executive should tip the waiter $5 or $10 and leave. Later the executive can mention the expenditure to the errant host's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Etiquette | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

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