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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Review editor William J. Buckley Jr. found it difficult to defend Buchanan after his comments about Treblinka and the alleged dual loyalties of Jews during the gulf war. Michael Kinsley, Buchanan's Crossfire co-host for two years, points out that it is a pundit's business to spew out provocative opinions like an open fire hydrant. But he insists, as do most of Buchanan's colleagues, that the candidate is not anti- Semitic: "I never heard him make a disparaging remark about Jews, never noticed any difference in the way he treats Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans The Thorn in Bush's Right Side | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Unfortunately, "She Drops Bombs" is indicative of the album as a whole. The twelve tracks end up blending together as one murky montage of tambourines, Hammond organs, watery electric guitars, and indistinct vocal harmonies which spew out shallow lines of neo-psychedelia such as "I hear your tambourines/inside my Etch-a-Sketch...

Author: By Ron Weiner, | Title: The Dylans Take Us On a Trip to the 60s | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), Lents is charged with enforcing antipollution regulations in the 6,600-sq.-mi. area that encompasses Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties. The 12 million people, 8 million motor vehicles and 31,000 businesses in the area spew 1,246 tons of noxious gases into the air every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling L.A.'s Smog | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...fewer than six jails. But last week, after six years of agitation marked by four lawsuits, 16 hearings and six mile-long protest marches, the 400-strong Mothers of East L.A. passed around cookies to celebrate a major victory: cancellation of a proposed commercial incinerator they claimed could spew cancer-causing particles over the community by burning 22,500 tons of used motor oil and industrial sludge annually. Citing "political pressure" and the prospect of "interminable litigation," attorneys for Security Environmental Systems, which was to build the facility, ruefully announced "abandonment" of the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Mothers of Prevention | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...right to swing his fist ends when it hits another's nose, the right to smoke also ends where the non-smoker's nose begins. If you want to pollute your own lungs in the privacy of your own room, that's fine. But the smoker's right to spew carcinogens into the air disappears the moment someone else can breathe them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's About Time | 3/6/1991 | See Source »

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