Word: neill
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...based glues in its manufacture of adhesive tape. It also burns nearly all of the remaining wastes in a huge incinerator at Cottage Grove, Minn. "In the past five years, there has been a tremendous change in the attitude of the chemical industry about hazardous waste," says Larry O'Neill, an environmental official with Monsanto Co. in Missouri. "We are now generating less and recycling more." Still, the recovery techniques are just being developed. "When we talk about recovery, we're only talking now about l% of all the material that's generated," claims James Patterson, director of industrial-waste...
Jason Robards was a journeyman actor when he auditioned for Director Jose Quintero in 1956 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. After reading for another role, Robards asked for a chance to try the climactic final monologue of the central character, Hickey, a backslapping little salesman some two decades older than the lean, magisterial Robards was then. Of the reading, Quintero says: "The way he peeled away Hickey's cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces...
...tapes from chats on Pickens' plane, his ranch and elsewhere. The contract is less than the $2 million that Harper & Row is paying David Stockman, the former White House budget chief, for his memoirs, but that is no problem. Says Pickens: "At least it's more than Tip O'Neill is getting." The retiring House Speaker was paid just $1 million for his book...
Congressional leaders invited to listen to the speech were predictably unimpressed. House Speaker Tip O'Neill commented that the President sounded as if he was "trying to stall for time." Said Republican Senator Danforth: "One speech does not make a policy." Reagan, however, did shore up resistance by some Republicans against the Democrat-led drive for protectionism. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We have to have legislation that at least matches the President's rhetoric and perhaps goes beyond it." But, he mused, "Are we going to limit presidential discretion? That is the $64,000 question...
...America is going to get tax reform." On the same day in Washington, congressional leaders predicted that despite the presidential pressure, the tax plan will go nowhere in 1985. "I don't think it has any chance of getting through Congress this year," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after a meeting with other top lawmakers to set the fall legislative agenda. Time is a key factor: even optimists concede that the House will not vote on a tax bill before late October. That would leave the Senate only a few weeks to consider the complex legislation before its proposed...