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...extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake is deep...
...added and some taken away. Some fees may go up and some go down. And because some people are uncomfortable with change, they might choose to go to another bank." Indeed, such refugees are enabling new local banks that stress service to customers to blossom in the shadow of the giants...
College is traditionally seen as a time for idealism, yet it seems we live in a cynical age where students increasingly demonstrate collective despair with politics by making apolitical choices. Activism, since the 1960s, has existed in the shadow of that turbulent decade. Nothing could be as big or bold or nationally impressive a demonstration of dissent as the age of D.C. marches and SDS rallies...
...America has watched for a month now as Clinton lives day to day in Monica Lewinsky's long shadow, trying to get on with running the country while keeping her locked up in never-never land. Last week, as attention finally turned to Iraq, he was asking the public to compartmentalize too, lay aside any doubts about his honor and follow him into war. If that was a lot to ask of a peaceful and prosperous nation, it was even more to ask of himself. And sometimes it showed. When he stood before the Pentagon's generals and spoke...
Granted, Reagan still casts a long shadow over American politics. When Clinton declared that the era of big government was over, Reagan's fingerprints were all over it. When the Republicans recaptured Congress in 1994, under whose banner were they marching...