Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help soak up the gas glut, but it created the misleading impression that coal was not the Administration's favorite fuel after all. Asserts Jim Larson, president of Energy Fuels Corp., Colorado's largest coal producer: "There is a simple lack of leadership. From where I sit, you just have to wonder what in hell is going on back there in Washington." The industry's biggest problem is that environmental laws have made digging and burning the fuel a bureaucratic nightmare. Worst offender: the antipollution amendments that Congress added to the Clean Air Act, with Carter...
Jones: We are sitting here, waiting on a powder keg. To sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane−it's going to be a catastrophe. It almost happened here when the Congressman was nearly killed here. [A cultist had attacked Ryan with a knife.] You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. [Some of the defectors were children whose parents had split on whether to flee or stay.] We've been so terribly betrayed...
...doing so. Some reporters prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...
Steiner said, "It is important that people of good will, who have a difference of opinion, sit down and talk things out." He added, "we were listening to each other, and that's significant...
...condition of veteran Andy Chaikovsky's shoulder will effect the line-up, since last year's co-MVP (along with Pompan) had to sit out spring challenge matches because of the injury...