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...Tuesday brings us the Conference Board's consumer confidence measure, an index distinguishable from the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey in two ways. The UM number is bi-monthly, the CB is monthly; and the UM is proprietary, which means some paying customer has to leak it to Reuters before we can hear about it, while the CB's numbers are free to all. (This explains why the UM number is considered slightly more credible, though for my money the reports on consumers' emotional states have been singularly useless for most of this year.) That said, folks...
That makes Nevadans angry and afraid. They are worried that radioactivity from the underground storage facility could eventually leak, contaminating nearby groundwater. They have protested with lawsuits, letter-writing campaigns and public demonstrations near the site in Nevada where nuclear devices were once exploded. Yet they have been powerless to block the project. Nevada has long been the Federal Government's atomic playground (928 nuclear bombs were detonated at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1992), and the state's politicians haven't had any clout in Washington...
...fistfuls of dirt with his bare hands; Ruth follows suit, wailing like an animal. "You want to get your hands dirty?" David confronts his brother. "You sanctimonious prick. Talk to me when you've had to stuff formaldehyde-soaked cotton up your father's ass so he doesn't leak." If our society's ways of death, and life, are based on little white lies, we see here that in some way we've asked for that; if Ruth's eruption is honest and healthy, we also on some level hoped...
...leak was reported Friday afternoon...
However, CFS administrators did not realize the gravity of the leak until Monday, according to Biewener, when they discovered that the oil had spread...