Word: interior
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...With a bit of gay interior decorative magic, we can transform it into an absolutely fabulous gay and lesbian resource center," Oppenheimer said...
...other federal programs receiving the award are "National Defense on the Offense," the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency; "Reinvention of the Bureau of Reclamation," the U.S. Department of the Interior; "Operation Jobs," the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; "Farly Warning Program," the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; and "Maine Top 200 Experimental Targeting Program," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
...penis bone of a walrus--at Mollie Beattie, the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is among the most powerful of a group of environmentally unfriendly lawmakers from Western states. As chairman of the House Resources Committee, he has decisive say over a controversial rewrite--or gutting, as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has put it--of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Last week Young and his allies rolled over Democrats and even a few moderate Republicans on the committee to move a step closer to a less expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions...
From Utah, there's Representative Jim Hansen, compared by his detractors to James Watt, Ronald Reagan's steel-eyed Interior Secretary. Some of Hansen's proposals in Congress, like opening up lands near Bryce Canyon National Park, have gone nowhere at all. But as the new chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Lands Subcommittee, the eight-term Congressman, who has been trying for years to reduce federal lands, has thwarted environmentalists hoping to designate 5.7 million acres of Utah as wilderness. A Hansen-sponsored bill that was adopted by his committee in August would limit the new wilderness...
Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world...