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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space agency has learned not to raise hopes too high. Galileo, Magellan and the Hubble telescope were scheduled to be launched in 1986, which NASA had confidently proclaimed to be the Year of Space Science. That "year" ended in flames on Jan. 28 with the death of Challenger...
...proposal, referred to simply as the L.A. plan, is 5,500 pages long and 3 ft. high, and was five years in the making. It calls for elimination of 70% of smog-producing emissions in the Los Angeles area by the year 2000. In the plan's first five-year phase, 123 separate regulations will ban the use of aerosol hair sprays and deodorants and require companies, regardless of the cost, to install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First...
Critics of the plan, however, believe it will prove a costly, unrealistic mistake. Though estimates place the cost of the initial phase at about 60 cents a person a day for the first five years, or about $2.79 billion a year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County...
...anger came first, but it is not an easy emotion for playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Her natural instinct is to charm, to disarm, to retreat from harm. The nervous giggles, the wispy, high-pitched voice, the ingratiating brown eyes and perhaps even the plump figure all seem protective camouflage. For Wasserstein, self-mocking humor has always been the first line of defense against both the judgment of others and her enveloping Jewish family, which cannot understand why a nice girl like Wendy is not married with children at 38. Even her closest friends sometimes find her hard to take entirely seriously...
...suites with wall-to-wall carpeting, snow-white walls and polished moldings skylights and high-tech furniture made the difference. Also, the new North House offices feature glass enclosures and split levels, while Cabot boasts a spacious, multi-purpose junior common room...