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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stiff fines and even prison sentences may get the attention of landbound polluters. Under Administrator Mike Deland, the EPA's New England office has acquired a reputation for tough pursuit of violators. In November 1986 the agency filed criminal charges against a Providence boatbuilder for dumping PCBs into Narragansett Bay. The company was fined $600,000 and its owner $75,000; he was put on probation for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Dirty Seas | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Disguised in guard's uniforms, three of the most notorious inmates of Tura Prison near Cairo beat two jailers unconscious last week, then grabbed their machine guns. Spraying bullets to discourage pursuit, they leaped into a white Fiat parked near the prison and vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: The Big Breakout | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

IMAGINE not being able to answer any of the questions in the Blue category--Geography--of Trivial Pursuit. Imagine being asked to find the Pacific Ocean on a map and pointing to the English Channel instead. Imagine confusing the Soviet Union's location with Botswana...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: "Cuba's Next to China, Right?" | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

...This will probably add some time to the deliberative process," Sharon Snyder, a Federal Election Commission (FEC) spokeswoman said of a GOP request that federal money be held up until the FEC can rule on questions raised by Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen's (D.-Tex.) pursuit of the vice-presidency and re-election to the Senate at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis-Bentsen Encounters Hitch | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

What we have here is The Odd Couple on the Lam, with Mardukas trying to slip out of Walsh's clutches and the bounty hunter trying to evade the intricate triple pursuit that Screenwriter George Gallo has structured and Director Martin Brest has smartly executed. The FBI, led by burly, surly Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), wants the accountant to testify against his former employers. The gangsters want him dead before that happens. And Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton), a rival bounty hunter, dull witted and implacable, wants to abduct the abductee and claim the fee for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life in Shoot-to-Thrill? | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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