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Consider the meager six sites deemed to have been cleaned through the Superfund. After a nine-month-long spill of chemicals into the Susquehanna River starting in 1979, it was found that a small Pennsylvania company had / been systematically, and illegally, dumping toxic wastes into shafts that fed into the Butler Tunnel, an outlet for waste water from abandoned coal mines near Pittston, Pa. Three men were convicted of violating the state's Clean Streams Act, and one was sent to prison. The three and their company were fined $750,000. EPA supervised the cleanup of the river pollution...
...year ago, White had a .580 percentage completion mark, but this year his completion percentage is a meager .360. The Massachusetts native also picked up 177 yards rushing in '84. So far this year he's lost 18 yards running...
...visited when it was about 44 million miles from the earth, well within the satellite's radio range. As an added bonus, a rendezvous with G-Z, as NASA scientists call it, could occur six months ahead of the Halley encounter. Farquhar began petitioning NASA officials to spend the meager $3 million it would take to commandeer ISEE-3. To his surprise, the allocation was approved before he had figured out how to divert the craft. "It may have turned out not to be possible," he says, "but at that point there was no backing...
...wait a minute. Players don't have living expenses during the season. Even so, the meager $300,000--which is certainly in the same ballpark as the salaries earned by other professionals like doctors and lawyers--would hardly cover the costs of the expensive education the players had to go through to get there...
...less a problem than a manifestation of American economic dynamism. "We have always depended on some low-wage labor," he says. "The illegal alien situation today is the continuation of a pattern." Muller's assertion may help explain one of the glaring contradictions of current U.S. immigration policy: the meager funding given to the INS to apply existing laws. The INS enforcement budget for 1985 comes to only $366 million for a staff of 7,599, less than a third the number of officers with the New York City police department. That lack of resources, acknowledges a senior INS official...