Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commissioner, insists that every new rule proposed to him must include an economic impact statement and it is often submitted to state environmental offices for their comments. Costle always asks subordinates: "Have you looked at alternative ways, including doing nothing?" Though Carter's well-touted zero-based budgeting has gone nowhere in most agencies, it has worked well at EPA. Holed up in a windowless room for three weeks, officials constructed a new budget from the bottom up; for example, they shifted half the funds for noise abatement to a program for screening drinking water for toxic chemicals...
...Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.). Soft, rocking, love-gone-wrong songs turn out right on a tasteful album that not only earned critical praise but became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards...
...elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable to decide such things as whether a witch capturing a player will turn him into a swine or keep him enchanted as a lover." One game in Cambridge, Mass., played every Saturday by members of M.I.T.'s Strategic Games Society, has gone on since spring and search teams have explored only three levels of the labyrinth cooked up by Dungeon Master Bob Ruppert. It took Ruppert, who in his less real life is an insurance salesman, an entire year to perfect his dungeon. "It's a lot of work being...
Still, even during their best years, the A's never drew well in Oakland. Last season, with most of the stars gone and the team demoralized, Oakland had a total attendance of only 495,578 (v. 2,955,087 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, top draw in the majors) and finished last in the A.L. West. That was too much for Finley to bear, and as he exited last week, he took a parting shot at Kuhn: "My having to get out of baseball dates from 18 months ago, when his highness, Bowie Kuhn, canceled my three-player deal...
...last have an offensive unit to complement an always strong defense. The combination produced two six-game winning streaks, marred by a single loss in a rematch with the Oakland Raiders, 24-14. Veteran Safety Billy Thompson sums up for the players, the fans and a city suddenly gone sports crazy: "It's like a dream come true, and it's sweet...