Word: potomac
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...federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 set standards for cleaning up the nation's water resources. As a result, the Potomac River is safe for swimming again, Lake Erie is coming back to life, and even Ohio's Cuyahoga River, which once caught fire when petroleum wastes in it ignited, shows signs of improvement...
Bakshian spent two months writing. Late at night, a glass of port in one hand and his brain in the other, Bakshian looked out over the Potomac and composed his first book. The publisher asked him, he explains, to go out on a limb, to write a book handicapping the chances of the candidates in search of the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations. Bakshian sees his book as something that may educate the electorate and "help us explain how these people get into office." He stops to preach. "If people are that goddamned concerned, then they...
Late at night, a glass of port in one hand and his brain in the other, Bakshian looked out over the Potomac and composed his first book...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich. She later was director of the Thomas School in Rowayton, Conn., and in 1977 became headmistress of Madeira. With a student body of 325 girls (tuition for boarders: $6,100), the school occupies almost 400 closely guarded acres of woodland in Greenway, Va., overlooking the Potomac River. Harris soon became known as a stern disciplinarian. She watched every detail, banning packages of crackers because she was upset about the wrappers thrown on the dining room floor. On a larger issue, she once ruled nearby Georgetown off-limits because some students had been drinking in its taverns. Just...
...beat the Constitution into submission. Everyday there was some new report out of Washington; Haldeman leaves the White House, Dean takes the stand, Nixon dodges the courts--the 18-minute gap heard round the world. Watergate captured imaginations in places they had never heard of Checkers or the Potomac and sent journalists scurrying to their wire machines to figure out what was going...