Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pollution control more than pays for itself in health cost savings. And the idea that local authorities could effectively regulate waste disposal is absurd, it seems none of those who militate for relaxed standards are aware that the wind blows and the rivers run, spreading pollution from one noxious pipe or smokestack all over the country. It is for just these sorts of problems that we have a federal government...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent in American journalism. Using his position to criticize as well as to nurture reporters, Lyons called for "a bold press" when covering politicians, but "a decently restrained press . . . in dealing...
...only took a couple of beers, and we were gone. Gone not to that pleasurably surreal universe of Mr. Buzz Jones, but rather to that unsettling realm of baseball reminiscence, that warped and pipe-dream world of great teams and players of years gone...
...Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery Toys of Benicia, Calif.: "The committee gives me a source of support, a feeling that it is O.K. to be successful." Said Judy Hendren Mello...