Word: sag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actors Guild addressed the touchy matter by asking that movie producers notify performers in advance if their roles call for open-mouth kisses. Any actor not so advised before signing a contract may refuse to play the scene, without financial penalty. "We are not saying kissing is dangerous," stressed SAG Executive Dean Santora. "This is not a medical bulletin. It's a labor matter...
...conventional telescopes cannot be simply scaled up indefinitely. As the mirrors get bigger, they begin to sag under their own weight. Indeed, for years many astronomers believed that a 200-in. diameter was the practical limit for an optical telescope...
...world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird...
Moving quickly to prevent another sag in spirits at EPA, the President announced that Ruckelshaus would be replaced by Lee Thomas, 40, a blunt, hard-driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...
Nancy Hamma-Clavin Sag Harbor...