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...problem has fed the ever present NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome. "Something's got to give," protests Christopher Daggett, EPA administrator for New York and New Jersey. "Either we aren't going to have cleanups, or someone's going to bite the bullet and start accepting wastes. But Lord knows, no one wants to be first." Daggett and his boss, EPA Director Thomas, contend that there is no ready technology that can promptly solve the disposal problem. "We can't wait around until we have the ultimate answer," says Daggett. "This stuff is still being generated, and we have...
...happen, we credit ourselves, but when bad things happen, we blame the Almighty. A lot of nasty things have happened in the convent of the Little Sisters of Mary Magdalene, which means the title of Agnes of God is not the only place where the name of the Good Lord appears in this film...
...desired end of this film was to argue for the presence of mystery in the modern world. Instead, the film demonstrates how modern man, and modern film, often chooses to answer real worldly and spiritual questions by taking a cowardly agnostic duck. To paraphrase the Good Lord, I'll take a hot movie or a cold movie anyday, but a lukewarm movie unsettles my popcorn...
...Praise the Lord," said John Z. DeLorean when he heard the not-guilty verdict at his cocaine-trafficking trial last year. But his legal troubles were far from over. A federal grand jury in Detroit last week indicted the once and possibly future automaker on new charges: mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen money, and income tax evasion. The accusations stem from his handling of the finances of DeLorean Motor Co., which went bankrupt in 1982. Investigators charge that DeLorean, 60, bilked his backers out of $8.9 million...
With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...