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...only U.S. plant using arsenic-rich copper ore imported from the Philippines. The proposed standard requires the smelter to install the best available technology to lower its overall arsenic emissions to 189 tons per year from the 310 tons that annually belch from its 565-ft. smokestack and seep from other parts of the plant. Asarco is already spending $4.4 million to install hoods that should cut back emissions to precisely those levels. Despite these safeguards, Ernesta Barnes, EPA's Northwest regional administrator, maintains that "arsenic is toxic at any level" and Asarco's new hoods will "still...
...Western oil imports falling, Soviet sales to the West rose from 1.1 million bbl. per day in 1981 to a rate of almost 1.5 million by the end of 1982. Goldman believes that Soviet oil exports to Italy doubled. This year, the Soviets let news of their price cuts seep out. The first cut, from $31.50 to $29.35, came in January. Last week, after OPEC announced its new $29 bench mark, word spread that the Soviet Union had cut prices again...
...quite decent human being. Ditto the rest of the staff (exemplary actors all) at the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners. Call it cul-de-sac for short. "Teaching foreigners is a job for failures," says one. Still, in a period of four years, life does seep into the arid crevices of their existence. There are births, marriages, deaths, philanderings and conversions...
Though there have been no large-scale tanker disasters since 1979, lesser oil spills are a common, and underreported, occurrence. Pollution experts estimate that every year 3 million tons of crude seep across U.S. coastal waters. Though feathers may seem a risibly simple solution to a high-technology problem, pillows are being taken seriously. Barry notes with satisfaction, "We already have two oil companies that have stopped laughing and placed trial orders...
...into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience. Vulnerability, untempered rage, urchin craftiness, a rough dignity-all these moods seem to seep through him. In fact, the two Richard Pryors, kamikaze comic and sensitive actor, are overlapping parts of the same intricate talent. If the fates are colorblind, they will start engraving his name on next year's Oscar for his performance as that most exasperating, charming, contradictory of humans-Richard...