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...blazed off the stakeboats, established a commanding lead, but has failed to demolish its opponents. Other races, the Crimson has slugged at the water lethargically and beaten admittedly weaker crews by narrow margins. Only after the Augusta victory did all eight oarsmen feel that they had "drained the tank...
Butt's crew must try to find that feeling of "draining the tank" when it rowsagain in two weeks at the Eastern Sprints inWorcester. There is a good chance that Butt mayrearrange lineups or at least threaten to in hopesof lighting a fire under his oarsmen...
Since the early 1970s, Dickerson, 38, has visited bungalows and trailer camps, tank farms and railroad sidings trying to alert cancer alley's destitute inhabitants about the dangers of the area they live in. "Chemicals aren't racist or prejudiced," she tells her listeners. "Eventually they will move into your community. To fight industry, all you've got to do is get organized...
...seven years, the Justice Department's special environmental unit has obtained more than 400 settlements or convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important safety tests on a California off-shore drilling rig; and Ocean Spray Cranberries, fined $400,000 in 1988 for discharging acidic waste...
Economically speaking, money spent on arms is largely wasted, siphoned off from the precious pool of capital like a big leak. (In the old days, swords could at least be beaten into plowshares. Try beating a tank into a tractor.) And though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference...