Word: interior
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...family income is $7,000 a year. There are no jobs to be had here mowing lawns on weekends; there are no lawns. There are no newspaper racks either. People, if they can read at all, read in Spanish. Logan Heights is a transitional point between Mexico and the interior of the U.S. Immigrants stop here before moving up, not to the middle class but to Los Angeles...
...case. Faced with the need to save money and increase production, especially of energy resources, the President is more interested in developing land than in preserving endangered animals or ecosystems. Since coming into office he has appointed people with a strong prodevelopment bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules...
That was a relief, and a surprise, for environmentalists. But from an ecologist's point of view almost every other word, or action, from the Interior Secretary has been bad news...
...Administration's budget requests for fiscal 1982, the $14 billion Carter allocated for environmental programs has been trimmed to $11.9 billion. Reagan's economic package slashes funding for the three main agencies charged with protection of the environment: $887 million, or 13.4%, from the Department of the Interior; $2.7 million, or 72%, from the Council on Environmental Quality; and $3.9 million, or 74%, from the Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed cuts will hit heavily at such things as coastal zone management, wildlife protection, and development of water resources-except in Western states, where financing for water projects...
...only remaining obstacle would be her 1966 marriage to Chicago Interior Designer Evangelos Metaxas, which also ended with a Greek Orthodox divorce after five years. "He could not live with women," she has explained. "We simply did not cohabit." The Governor's wife thus might claim lack of due discretion with regard to the Metaxas marriage. Formerly strict Catholic tribunals in the U.S. now accept a wide range of after-the-fact evidence that a spouse was psychologically incapable of entering a true marriage. (The number of U.S. annulments has jumped 5000% in the past decade, to more than...