Word: marquez
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...your own it's very difficult to say, 'I'm going to block out this entire section, and I'm going to time myself,'" says pre-med Lucy Marquez '01. "I find that if I do it myself, I do two sections and I get tired and say, 'I'm going home...
...Harvard people tend to be really intense, comparing scores or blurting out the amount of time you've been studying," Marquez says...
...January 1997, Bush was in a meeting with Ralph Marquez, his appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just...
...Marquez said the TNRCC had been exploring ways to bring the grandfathered plants into compliance. "Well, let's get moving," Bush said. Then he added, "But can you make it voluntary?" He may have been impatient with the polluters, but he still wasn't willing to get tough with them. Perhaps because of his own career in the West Texas oil fields, Bush shares the mind-set of the industry, believing that "you can't sue or legislate your way to clean air and clean water...
History teaches the opposite. Progress against pollution has come because of regulation, not the beneficence of industry. At the time of Bush's meeting with Marquez, some TNRCC officials had been pushing for a law that would have required the plants to clean up. Bush's insistence on a voluntary approach--an attitude shared by Marquez, a former executive at Monsanto--quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came...