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Residents of the area, known as Mid Cambridge, had charged that a bridge spanning Broadway St. would reduce sunlight, create a traffic hazard, and in general, detract from the aesthetics of their densely crowded neighborhood...
...priority list in the first place. In Greenville, Miss., Walcott Chemical Co. had stored 226 drums of such chemicals as tetrasodium pyrophosphate and formic acid in a warehouse that the state of Mississippi had seized for failure to pay taxes. The state considered the chemicals a fire hazard (rather than a contamination threat) and asked EPA to put the site near the top of its list. The agency merely had the drums hauled off to an approved landfill in Emelle, Ala. Problem solved. Similarly, about 700 drums of chemicals had been stored in a Cleveland warehouse used by Chemical Minerals...
Justice Stevens, 65, a sometime private pilot, firmly rejected the contention that the aging process made all flight engineers over 60 a hazard. "Many older American workers perform at levels equal or superior to their younger colleagues," he wrote in an unsubtle rejoinder from a member of the second oldest Supreme Court in history. Said Criswell, who at 66 is still a Western flight engineer: "By ruling unanimously, the court made very clear what it thinks of age discrimination. People constantly tell me, 'We like to see some gray hair in the cockpit...
Since terrorist acts are committed to capture headlines, there is always the hazard that events will be overdramatized. "On the one hand, we do not want to inflame emotions," says Rather. "But on the other hand, we do not want to dilute the hard reality." Aside from reassuring relatives and other Americans about the condition of the hostages, last week's coverage shed light for Washington on who was holding the 40 captives. One person in particular picked up some details: asked about whether the three-member TWA crew was still on the plane, Ronald Reagan said...
...fruitless to try to summarize in detail here the corpus of Klitgaard's analysis. Suffice it to say it is heavily quantitative, loathe to make categorical statements, and in general correctly skeptical of making too much of our ability to predict "success." But from his research, Klitgaard does hazard some striking and, in many ways, unsettling conclusions...