Word: messes
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...search for a solution to the problem, but the politics of the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war quickly got in the way. At week's end there was no agreement on how to cap the gushers, much less on how to clean up the resulting mess. Even as the ministers spoke, patches of tar started to wash up on Bahrain's sandy beaches...
...culpability for the March attack on the oil wells. Iraq refused, arguing that the bombing had been an accident. Said a frustrated Western diplomat: "Who cares if it is called a cease-fire or safe passage or what? The point is to stop the spillage and clean up the mess...
...aquatic life. Says Puerto Rico's Arsenio Rodriguez Mercado, a scientific adviser to the U.N. Environment Program: "Sewage generated by 30 million people is dumped more or less untreated into the Caribbean." On some islands, hotels discharge wastes into the waters where guests swim. Adding to the mess are the cruise ships and yachts anchored offshore...
...decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept the boy. The issue is never much in doubt, since Martin Sheen plays this humanities professor as if his subject were actually humanitarianism. As the wife, Blythe Danner does her customary turn as the best thing about a bad mess. But even her tart realism cannot rescue this movie from its sappy source...
...probed charges of political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration officials, unhappy with her handling of the mess at her agency, also favored jettisoning the "Ice Queen...