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...erratic pattern of economic recovery has created Democratic opportunities in several states that otherwise would be counted as Republican, such as Iowa, Oregon and Colorado. Unlike Reagan and Richard Nixon, Bush has no firm ties with the West. "What scares me," says a Republican planner, "is the realization that the West is a G.O.P. stronghold but not at all a Bush stronghold." Dukakis has also benefited from the five-month hiatus in Bush's visibility after the Republican nomination was effectively settled on Super Tuesday...
Even though the Administration has been exhausted -- intellectually and politically -- for nearly two years, Reagan has been able, in the words of his former domestic-policy planner, Martin Anderson, to sculpt "America's policy agenda well into the 21st century." At the very least, he has defined the political debate. Opinion polls show some vague unease about the economy's future, along with renewed interest in federal solutions for a variety of domestic ills. Still, Reagan's preachments about the evils of Big Government and high progressive tax rates continue to dominate the political landscape. Even his failures, the most...
...dead -- and deadly -- water. Seattle's Elliott Bay is contaminated with a mix of copper, lead, arsenic, zinc, cadmium and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chemicals once widely used by the ( electrical-equipment industry. "The bottom of this bay is a chart of industrial history," says Thomas Hubbard, a water-quality planner for Seattle. "If you took a core sample, you could date the Depression, World War II. You could see when PCBs were first used and when they were banned and when lead was eliminated from gasoline." Commencement Bay, Tacoma's main harbor, is the nation's largest underwater area designated...
...from the history of the sound to what not to put down the kitchen sink. Controlling pollution is promoted as everyone's task. High school students take water samples, and island dwellers have been trained in what to do if they spot an oil spill. Says Seattle Water-Quality Planner Hubbard: "Bridgetenders are great at calling in with violations. They are up high, and when they see a black scum or a little slick, they let us know about...
...country by traveling with his father, who instilled in him an abiding love of Mexico's physical beauty. He earned a degree in civil engineering in Mexico, studied in France, West Germany and Italy, then returned to Mexico and worked for two decades as an engineer and planner. Along the way he met his elegant Portuguese-born wife Celeste and started a family that now includes two grown sons and a five-year-old daughter...