Word: overing
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More important, the plan might actually lead to more breathable air. It calls for a 50% slash in acid-rain-producing sulfur-dioxide emissions by the turn of the century, a 40% tightening of emissions standards for hydrocarbons from automobile tail pipes, a 75% cut in cancer-causing toxic chemicals...
Before Bush unveiled his proposals, public opinion surveys were giving him exceedingly low marks on the environment. Actually, though, the President set up a clean-air working group immediately after the Inauguration. It proceeded in what is becoming a trademark manner for this Administration. The group met repeatedly with environmentalists...
Just days after their Princeton, N.J., house burned down, physician Arthur Krosnick and his wife Evelyn visited their friend George Nakashima. Over three decades, the Krosnicks had collected 114 pieces of furniture created by Nakashima, who lives in Bucks County, Pa. Now they asked the 84-year-old craftsman if...
The issue was not whether to raise the minimum wage but by how much. Last week the effort faltered because neither Congress nor President Bush would give ground on a 30 cents-an-hour difference of opinion. On Tuesday Congress sent legislation to the White House calling for a $1.20...
RENT SUBSIDIES. A program to provide subsidized housing was turned into a treasure trove from which millions of dollars in rent subsidies, tax credits and consulting fees were doled out to prominent Republicans and a handful of rich developers. Pierce stood idly by as his executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean...