Word: interiorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, the number of kisses depends on where you are. In Rio, you kiss a person twice, once on each cheek. In the city of São Paulo, you kiss a person only once. But in the interior of São Paulo state, you kiss three times, alternating cheeks. The third kiss is for luck in marriage. This gets to be a problem when you leave a party and have to kiss 50 people goodbye...
...their income as directors of several corporations: Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, fees of $61,150 plus a $30,106 salary as a vice president and professor at Duke University; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris, fees of $40,535 and $55,725 as a Washington lawyer. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus earned the least: $33,000 as Governor of Idaho...
...After four years as Assistant Interior Secretary, Jack Horton is back on his 10,000-acre ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. He rises as early as 4 a.m. to tend his 400 Herefords, but also hopes to use his Washington experience as an environmental consultant. Says he: "You owe the world much more than to just go back and lock yourself up on a ranch...
...Jack B. Weinstein voided the Government's sale last August of 93 oil-drilling leases on the Atlantic shelf to private companies for $1.1 billion. In response to a suit by local politicians and conservationists, Weinstein ruled that the statements on environmental impact issued by former Secretary of Interior Thomas Kleppe were a "charade." According to the judge, the statements failed to discuss adequately such considerations as whether tankers or pipelines would be used to bring oil ashore or where onshore storage depots and processing plants would be located...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...