Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Reagan downturn has come rather swiftly. Three months ago a TIME-Yankelovich survey found that 43% of those polled expressed "doubts and reservations" about the President, while a solid 55% said that they felt Reagan was a "leader you can trust." Now 51% said they have doubts, while 48% still trust...
...public health." A congressional resolution to force the EPA to reconsider its decision quickly won support from both parties. Last week the agency reversed itself and reimposed the ban. "It was a mistake to suspend the rule," admitted Gary Dietrich, director of the agency's office of solid wastes. Added Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch: "I believe the EPA should err on the side of caution...
...outgrowth of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the ban was put in place last November in response to widespread concerns that leaking chemical drums were contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists...
Though all three players had impressive end-of-year statistics, their weaknesses and periodic slumps were major factors in the cagers' failure to improve on a solid 1981 season...
...front of the curtain, before the second act began, apologize to the audience and sing Poor Wandering One again. She did, with Smith beside her, and the night was saved. Leach tells this as a tribute to Ronstadt and Smith. Ronstadt says that Leach is wise and solid, and that Smith, who hadn't caused the problem, had with characteristic generosity shared the blame. And Smith is awed that Ronstadt pulled herself together, and that her apology did not mention the miscreant musicians...