Word: supervisors
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...objective of the unique operation is to capture oil and gas from fissures on the ocean floor, helping to rid local beaches of a thick, gooey carpet of tar that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities...
...surface is reseeded and restored for use as range or cropland the following season. Maintenance teams will be permanently based along the lines to inspect them periodically and guard against soil erosion by practicing terracing and other soil-conservation techniques. Says Robert Landers, a construction supervisor on the Trailblazer project: "We bury and hide our pipe with about the same care the Egyptians took in burying their pharaohs." Now the only thing the pipeline companies have to worry about is whether consumers can be counted on to buy up the prodigious amounts of fuel soon to be flowing silently eastward...
...Postal Supervisor James I. Jones inspected Lowell yesterday and supported Ferrante's concern about failing building materials or tools said Jean Babcock of the Public Information Service...
...thousands of Ph.D.s unable to find anyone willing to pay them for their hard-earned knowledge of Renaissance painting or the history of French monasticism, but any Sunday newspaper overflows with ads appealing for experts in electromagnetic capability, integrated logistics support or laser electro-optics. Says George W. Valsa, supervisor of the college-recruiting section at Ford: "We are not ready to sign a petition to burn down liberal arts colleges, but don't expect us to go out and hire many liberal arts graduates." Ford does hire nearly 1,000 graduates a year, and most of them...
...lives because of the drop in inflation and interest rates, and they are all too aware of high unemployment and rising bankruptcies. But they differ widely on how much to blame Reagan and his party, if at all. Brenda Pace, who lost her $300-a-week job as a supervisor at Hudson's department store in Detroit, delivers a two-word verdict on Reaganomics: "It stinks...