Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enforcement regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would sharply tighten the already strict standards on pollution emissions and make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove sulfur pollution from exhaust smoke. The scrubbers cost $80 million or more for an average-size, 800-megawatt generating plant. What really upsets coalmen is that the regulations would force utilities to use scrubbers to remove up to 85% of sulfur pollutants even from coal that has virtually no sulfur content at all, an incredible waste...
...still is the recent perception of male psychiatrists as sexual exploiters of their women patients. Though such behavior is clearly a violation of the Freudian ethic, which forbids any social contact between patient and doctor, to say nothing of the Hippocratic oath, there is clearly some fire behind the smoke. In Florida alone, nine psychiatrists last year were charged with sexual misconduct during therapy; in a recent poll of 500 psychiatrists, a medical journal found that a surprising 19% said that they approved of doctor-patient sex under some circumstances. The intimate relationships in therapy obviously make both patient...
...monotony which is just as lethal to the spirit and body. Norma's struggle to organize her factory has an innocent vigor against which Ritt plays off the smugness surrounding the union officials who come down to confer with Reuben. Beefy, older men, they exude, along with their cigar smoke, a sense of grimy, urban power. In this scene, Ritt effectively portrays both the idealism and the reality of today's unions...
...crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate, the crunch of doughnuts being engulfed, the smells of wet wool and wood smoke...
...says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that there really are no short cuts, no substitute for careful thought and movement in very deliberate ways. This business of coming in with smoke and mirrors and doing a hat trick is nonsense...