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...they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...
...federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that this was a "taking" for which the Constitution requires payment. That didn't stop what became a classic angry standoff in 1986, when Charles Hurwitz, a Houston financier, bought Pacific Lumber largely with junk bonds and cranked up the chopping down of redwoods to pay off his debt. Three days after the Owl Creek decision, Pacific Lumber announced plans to log the redwoods of the 3,000-acre Headwaters Forest, another murrelet nesting place...
Although McIntyre and Moore refuses to stock many textbooks, the majority of the books are still fairly serious. If you desperately want a junk-book fix, look elsewhere for the latest Harlequin romance. On the other hand, when Patrick comes across a Danielle Steele or two in a batch of other books, those novels go out on the clearance table for a quarter each...
...Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...
City Councillor Sheila T. Russell said she wasglad her former colleague was acquitted, andcalled the art exhibit "junk...