Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aileen Quinn, 10, Veteran Director John Huston, 75, seemed as pleased as Daddy Warbucks during a Dow Jones upswing. The screen version of the Broadway hit was his first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter Huston, through a jig in the 1948 classic Treasure of Sierra Madre. "And that," John admits, "was his own choreography." The Annie youngsters were just as professional. Says Huston: "If you understand kids, they never disappoint...
...have to pay higher gasoline and home heating oil prices next year, I, along with many other Americans, am going to blame the Sierra Club, the Friends of the Earth and the National Wildlife Federation...
...that he was a poor choice to head Interior, and still do. The Environmental Defense Fund, a legal action group, announced last week that it will sue Watt for delaying the addition of 44 species, most of them Hawaiian snails, to the endangered species list. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club, one of Watt's most vocal opponents, is continuing to circulate impeachment petitions. And Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy group, has sold 1,200 DUMP WATT T shirts (some of them to Interior Department employees) at up to $7.50 apiece...
Environmental groups are getting ready for the fight of their lives in a variety of ways. The 200,000-member Sierra Club has chosen direct attack. It is circulating a petition demanding that Watt be fired. "We're trying to provide a way for an outraged public to express itself to the federal officials closest to them," explains Executive Director Michael McCloskey. Other groups disagree with this tactic. "We've got to go after specific programs," says Jack Lorenz, executive director of the 50,000-member Izaak Walton League of America. "If we can't go after...
...zealously ambitious Koreans who run New York City's best vegetable markets, or boat people trying to open a restaurant, or chicanes who struggle to start a small business in the barrio are still years away from est and the Sierra Club...