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...commission must reach a decision next month. Whoever wins, the loser probably will challenge the constitutionality of Maine's laws in the courts. Whatever the outcome of that challenge, the hearings have already proved how complicated environmental cases are getting. The commission, empowered last year specifically to protect Maine's environment, must now consider hard economic questions about new jobs and income as well. While the proposed Searsport refinery would create a serious risk of oil pollution in its own environs, the desulfurized oil that it is meant to produce would, when marketed, lessen air pollution over...
...game, the man who walked out on pro football to prove his competence as an actor, businessman and racial leader very softly asks Toback if he really thinks he is going to win. Brown then sinks ten straight, leaving a thoroughly psyched Toback revealed as a born loser...
...20th century men generally-are deluded by the Faustian illusion that by predicting the future, they can control it. If all this seems occasionally oppressive, if the arrogance of the prophets begins to irritate the layman, there is one consolation: the forecasters are usually wrong, since predicting is a loser's game...
Hubbard was not available for comment last night. He said yesterday afternoon, "A threat of demonstration is a factor which makes me not want to cancel. I would rather have a discussion session than a no-show or be declared loser by default...
...former HEW lawyer says that Mardian "consistently tried to scuttle school desegregation guidelines." Defending his go-slow position, Mardian candidly explained, "Look, you might as well recognize that you're in politics." He told his colleagues: "There are two kinds of people in the world-winners and losers. I knew a loser once and he was a queer." ("That's a joke," he added.) On another occasion he told newsmen in a background briefing that he did not mind if there were Ku Klux Klansmen on the Mississippi desegregation advisory committee. Asked by a reporter if he could...