Word: stringfellow
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Other strange and bizzare experiences mark Adam's time in San Francisco. He begins teaching at the Stringfellow School for privileged high school students, and one of the boys in his advanced English literature class begins to follow him around and eventually attempts to begin a romantic affair. Meanwhile, he becomes lovers with Amy Armstrong, the physics teacher at the school, who was also a Yale classmate. Amy's only distinction is that she has a fetish with suede shoes--and she places them at the foot of the bed each time they have sex so that her footwear...
...White House urging, she approved the selection of Rita Lavelle, a California publicist who had worked for a chemical company (Aerojet General Corp.), to direct the Superfund start-up. In the mismanagement that followed, Lavelle was convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in EPA's dealings with the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a notorious waste dump in California, where Aerojet General, along with many other companies, had dumped tons of caustics, cyanides and heavy metals over the years. Burford was also charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to give it some internal EPA documents; the charge was dropped after...
...dump may indeed be part of the solution. The federal Superfund pays Casmalia Resources to take wastes collected in the cleanup of the notorious Stringfellow Acid Pits near Los Angeles. But even this up-to-date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire...
...decisions involving her former employer, Aerojet-General Corp. In a signed statement sent to a congressional committee a year ago, Lavelle testified that she had removed herself from any dealings with Aerojet on June 18, 1982, the day after she learned the company had dumped wastes at the Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif. But other EPA officials testified that Lavelle had known about her old firm's involvement three weeks earlier and had even warned the company that the EPA was looking into the matter...
...former EPA Administrator Anne Burford, who was testifying before another House subcommittee. She was confronted with a charge that 15 EPA officials had told congressional probers that they believed Burford was playing partisan politics last year when she delayed announcing a $6 million cleanup grant for California's Stringfellow acid pits. Burford denied the accusation. Her former chief of staff, John Daniel, testified that officials of the President's OMB pressured the EPA to consider industry costs before implementing regulations, even in cases where EPA is barred by law from weighing such considerations. Daniel also claimed that...