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...When people see raw sewage spill out of a pipe or toilet on their floor or carpet, it takes a lot of convincing to [let them know it is] cleaned up afterward," he said...
...words, Silber can be charming in person -- as long as he is unchallenged. Interviewers confront seamless arguments peppered with quotes from Shakespeare and references to his critics as "pismires," creatures defined in the dictionary as ants. A small-framed, brown-haired man with angular features and hard eyes, the pipe-smoking Silber smiles rarely, swears sporadically and goes stone-faced when angered. Little of what he says, he concedes, is spontaneous. "I've spent more time thinking about most of the issues I talk about than ((other)) people who talk about them. And as a consequence I'm not shooting...
...apprenticeship is not over, not yet. One day some fisherman with a pipe stands in the stream nearby releasing fish and announces that the trout are hitting bugs with an unpronounceable Latin name. You nod but don't know what he's talking about. Then back to the books for a quick course on streamside biology, matching the hatch, figuring out what the trout is eating and which artificial flies imitate those insects. Armed with a little entomology and inflamed with trout psychosis, you start buying everything that countless catalogs offer: stream thermometers, a flashlight for nighttime fishing, hook- sharpening...
...combatting smog, Bush conveniently opted to develop alternative-fuel cars in the future rather than move quickly to require costly reductions in tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until...
...that hard and complicated negotiating remains before NATO and the Warsaw Pact can start cutting their conventional forces in Europe to low, equal numbers. Never mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear...