Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of the Everglades suit charged -- correctly -- that Lehtinen went to court without consulting either the Justice or the Interior Department. Governor Martinez asked Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to settle the suit or drop it. Last December Lehtinen was summoned to Washington for a review of his actions. It seemed the suit would be scrapped, but Lehtinen, by agreeing to drop the most sweeping charges, returned with both Justice and Interior on his side...
...least 40,000 acres into marshes to filter their pollution. Instead, the sugar industry has questioned the U.S. Attorney's motives and disputed his scientists' data. "The first question is, Which sugar mill will you put out of business? Who will you put out of work?" asks Andy Rackley, general manager of the Florida Sugar Cane League. If growers are forced to give up land, he claims, the entire industry could collapse...
...blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever to serve as U.N. Secretary-General...
...whose privately held companies have sales that place them among the top dozen U.S. newspaper groups -- and whose biggest concentration of holdings is in the suburbs of St. Louis. Second, Ingersoll has inherited knowledge about the trials of a big-city start-up: his late father Ralph, a onetime general manager of Time Inc., founded the critically acclaimed New York City daily PM, which lasted eight years in the 1940s. Third, the Sun is not reaching for the stars...
...intellectual who counts Samuel Beckett as his favorite writer, Ingersoll nonetheless publishes papers that condescend; they entertain more than educate or inform. He blasts other newspapers for giving reporters free reign to pursue investigative and analytic stories he considers of limited interest. Says Ingersoll: "There has been a general breakdown of discipline in American newsrooms in the past generation. It got to the point by the early '80s where you couldn't get the best young reporters to aspire to be editors anymore...