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...Government and Community relations office stayed on the sidelines (except for a plea from chief lobbyist Roger Moore before the committee that reviewed the bill), but opposition still surfaced. Delays snagged the bill all along the line until, in the mad rush that annually preceeds adjournment, the bill turned up again in the fray. Someone in the governor's office--speculation centered on legislative aide and Harvard alumnus Neil Lynch-- managed to get the bill returned to the floor of the senate. Only appeals from old King friends, City Manager James L. Sullivan, State Sen. Michael LoPresti, and a host...
Environmental Concerns: It is certainly not accurate to portray me or the industry as anti-environmentalist. We are making a plea for proper balance between clean air and water, and the dire need for energy. I think the industry has a good record. The problems are brought about by a few obstructionists who have used environmental legislation in a manner never intended by the legislators. These obstructionists are basically antibusiness groups and "no-growth" theorists. Some have been appointed to influential Government jobs...
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent...
...acting is subservient to Hill's vision. The story is simple on its surface, hardly more than a string of incidents, most of them violent but only occasionally (and then effectively) bloody. Nor does Hill try to cop a plea for his out laws by introducing that familiar James-boys yarn in which the returning Civil War veterans become populist folk heroes by trying to expropriate from the expropriators. One gets the feeling that they would have found their way to crime anyway, as a suitable line for brave, hard men. The Pinkertons (led by James Whitmore...
...closer look at the report, titled "Toward Healthful Diets," indicated that the criticism was not entirely justified. Far from giving American dietary habits a clean bill of health, the council's food and nutrition board made a major plea for moderation. Noting that millions of Americans are at least 20% overweight, it recommended that these people could cut down on dietary fats, which contain twice as many calories as equal amounts of carbohydrates and proteins. It also urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those...