Word: maxed
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Independent Taxi Association President Max Dobro yesterday defended the overflow practice and noted that "it's not done all the time...
...Died. Max Lincoln Schuster, 73, co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a major figure on the American literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World...
...Max Jamison, by Wilfrid Sheed. A scalpel-sharp dissection of a critic criticizing himself...
...Max Blumer of Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution told the conference that "major catastrophes in production and at sea, unburned fuel, spent lubricants, and a significant hydrocarbon contribution from the land [municipal wastes] contribute about 10 million tons of oil to the world's oceans each year." According to Blumer, the immediate effects of oil spills-dead fish and birds-are followed by long-term damage to marine ecology. "Compared to the size of the accidents," he said grimly, "the present countermeasures against oil in the oceans are inadequate...
Local magnate Max Wasserman has recently purchased her estate, but Cambridge residents have been slow to forget the legend of "the witch of Harvard Square." People don't forget immigrant assistant milliners who earn over $4 million in 40 years...