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...students were shunted to separate North and Cabot advisory committees, but when these met last spring they were told that all the major decisions had already been set in stone. Some of these major decisions were extremely noxious to residents-for instance, the placing of Cabot House's dining hall on North House's edge of the Quad...
...legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious smoke," he declares...
...appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp the ways in which Hitler's culture took over a large part of the inherited content of expressionism--its obsession with the mystical, the vast, the unconsciously collective and the charismatic, and its magnification of an inbuilt weakness for kitschy spirituality into a noxious rhetoric of state power--we will not fully understand its grip on the minds of Germans...
...area. Nearby, the company is spending $1.6 million to improve its large surface collection tanks, made of concrete lined with epoxy, that receive waste from steel-processing plants. New fiber-glass liners are being placed inside the cylinders. In the past, such wastes were merely poured into noxious surface lagoons. (In other ways, Waste Management is no ideal disposer. It agreed to pay $2.5 million last April to settle an EPA charge that it had illegally disposed of toxic chemicals in Ohio...
...Reagan, noxious as he may be otherwise, had done little more than reconstitute JFK's rhetoric in his earnest BSing about "morning in America" and "America is back, standing tall." Tony Goldman's Newsweek book finds particularly significant a June 1984 Darman memo which advises...