Word: interior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...less than three years as Secretary of the interior, Watt managed to generate more support for environmentalists than the Sierra Club could in a decade. His knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, his uncanny ability to sabotage his own plans with memorable gaffes--surely Watt's successor will not be so incompetent...
...comfy" London townhouse, when the newly successful Otto comes to reclaim her. Gilda dumps both men in exasperation, and the third scene finds her in the ultra-chic New York penthouse of her insipid and confident new husband, the art dealer Ernest. By now Gilda, an interior designer, is totally in control, both of her husband and of her high society clientele. Leo and Otto, reconciled, show up to reclaim her, though, and the three go off happily in modern menage a trois fashion and a peculiar mix of sexual liberation and sentimentality. The simple moral of the tale...
...Interior Secretary James Watt last week tried a new tack in his campaign to survive in office. His method: lying low in the wake of criticism loosed a fortnight ago when he described a newly appointed advisory commission by saying, "I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple." Watt reportedly drafted a resignation letter but did not send it. President Reagan told aides he thought Watt ran his department well, then announced that he would not ask him to resign. Instead, said Reagan, "I have accepted his apology...
Meanwhile, the now famous five-member advisory commission, appointed at the behest of Congress to review Interior's controversial coal-leasing program, gamely met in Washington. But Watt chose not to wait for its recommendations; instead, he decided to issue five leases for coal-rich federal land in North Dakota to private companies (cost to them: $912 million). That decision flew in the face of a directive from the House Interior Committee, which had ordered Watt to delay granting the leases until Congress could review them. As Watt saw it, the House had no legal right to stop...
...wanted to move away from the concept of being a 'student health service,' which automatically means being interior." Long explained, adding that the renovations are designed to improve both "efficiency and aesthetics...