Word: smog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...
...audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff forkids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
Yale Class of 1982 will sponsor a 9 p.m. Saturday night party on Yale Commons for those who can bear the cold of the Hew Haven smog (a mixture of smoke and stale beer...
...progress has also brought new problems. Nowhere is this more apparent than in greater Athens, where almost one-third of Greece's 9.6 million citizens now live. Often, the ancient city is cloaked in a suffocating smog so thick that residents cannot see the Acropolis. Says Yannis Manos, who left his native village on a small Dodecanese island and today drives a battered taxi in Athens: "If I had known then what this would cost, I never would have left Patmos...
...York. However, it was so cold there that they had to move the later games--the face-off goes on until one team has a two-game lead--to Los Angeles, where it's always like summer and everyone could pretend it was August again. But then, the smog got to them, so they moved the tournament back to New York. All this was possible because of the low air fares you can get now between New York and Los Angeles...