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Conveyed to the oceans through rivers, drainage ditches and the water table, such pollutants include fertilizers and herbicides washed from farms and lawns, motor oil from highways and parking lots, animal droppings from city streets and other untreated garbage that backs up in sewer systems and spills into the seas. Says Biologist Albert Manville of Defenders of Wildlife, a Washington-based environmental group: "We're running out of time. We cannot continue to use the oceans as a giant garbage dump...
...older generation in country music. The Crowell shindig is right where the action in country music has moved: the crossroads. There has been a lot of traffic there lately, at the delicate junction where country meets its past, sizes up its future and -- probably most important -- guns its musical motor and goes off in its own direction. And Crowell, a wonderfully gifted songwriter and rambunctious performer, isn't even driving the fastest car in the pack...
Lipsig gets very serious about the civic virtues of liability suits. "But for lawsuits brought by personal-injury lawyers, the Ford Motor Co. would still be making defective Pintos, which burst into flames when struck from behind." He describes the firm he founded 62 years ago, which has now become Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, in terms that would make the Lone Ranger blush: "Champion of the weak, defender of the poor, the equalizer in the arena of litigation...
...hand and helped by a teacher, gropes through the hallways in search of a children's drinking fountain. "I deserved a drink of water for that, didn't I?" she chirps after finally taking a sip. Disabled adults are trained in sewing and other rudimentary work skills. Children with motor handicaps struggle to master tasks like folding a washcloth or negotiating the spout of a milk carton...
...result, the Ford Motor Co. of 1988 is sleeker and stronger than the bloated Ford of the 1970s. Since 1979, the firm has shut down 15 of some 165 plants worldwide and eliminated 60,000 of 165,000 blue-collar jobs and 20,000 of 73,000 white-collar positions. That enabled it to reduce annual operating costs by $5 billion, to an estimated $65 billion in 1987. Over the past few years, the company has amassed cash reserves of $10 billion, which should make a recession bearable...