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This history of losses has Luzak grasping for a short-term goal (Beat Yale!) en route to a grander challenge (the Ivy title...
...ordered choice was supposed to be a short-term compromise, born out of a spirited committee fight. Back then, Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely and former Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49 vigorously opposed an attempt by some of their colleagues and Jewett to fully randomize the housing lottery...
...ordered choice was supposed to be a short-term compromise, born out of a spirited committee fight. Back then, Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely and former Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49 vigorously opposed an attempt by some of their colleagues and Jewett to fully randomize the housing lottery...
...West Texas the stench of the New York sludge is helping opponents mobilize against MERCO and build support for a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general to force the EPA to require an environmental-impa ct statement from MERCO. "We're trading a few short-term jobs for our way of life," argues antisludge organizer Linda Lynch. Supporters retort that the sludge will eventually revitalize depleted rangelands. Exxon station owner Andy Virdell, who has seen other ventures die in the hardscrabble desert, is ecstatic. "Sure, we'd rather have an electronics plant here," he says, "but in this economy...
...business in 10 years," says Allen Blakey, public relations director for the National Solid Wastes Management Association, the nation's trash collectors. Yet government-mandated recycling laws, by requiring haulers in some instances to pick up unmarketable items, are actually forcing some into bankruptcy. The danger in this short-term failure of recyclonomics, warns William Rathje, author of the recently published book Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage, "is that, in the interim, recycling enthusiasts will become disillusioned at reports of difficulties...