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Vardaman's pell-mell efforts were also ridiculed by leading bird watchers. Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, complained that Vardaman's venture "has more to do with sport than with nature or the beauty of birds. It's not an appreciation of nature-it's a game." Line likened Vardaman's pursuit to "counting out-of-state license plates...
Though oil exports last year brought the Shah's government some $22 billion, the cost of pell-mell modernization was high; when the Shah left, Iran owed $7.2 billion to foreign lenders, including an estimated $2.2 billion to U.S. banks. Bankers point out that any attempt by Tehran to renege on those commitments would make the country an international financial pariah...
...waythings started out--before a crowd of 19,000 in 65-degree conditions--it didn't even seem that Harvard would have a chance to be involved in a pell-mell finish...
...Staff, in the smart khaki-colored wool uniform of an officer; and Chou Enlai, in a dingy brown leather coat. There were only four automobiles in Yenan then, and when Mao required one, his vehicle was a converted ambulance. Out of this ambulance they now rushed, trotting pell-mell to greet Franklin Roosevelt's emissary. Hurley towered above the stocky Chinese like Captain John Smith surrounded by Powhatan's tribal braves...
...comprised solely of members responding to special interests. Neither is it a conservative coalition. To the chagrin of anti-nuke activists, not even the breeder and its hated plutonium--much less the conventional, safer reactors--can shake up the moderates who control Congress. "We are not going to, pell-mell, rush into a 'breeder age' or 'plutonium economy' or anything else," argued classic middle-of-the-roader, Rep. John Anderson (D-Ill.) recently in an attempt to discredit the catch-phrases used against Clinch River development. Anderson, like many others, voted for proceeding with Clinch River as "an insurance policy...