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...jewelry shops along Main Street have reopened, to beguile passengers with special one-time-only sales that never end. Everywhere there are sounds of rebuilding. At the island's largest hotel, Frenchman's Reef, the hammering begins at 7:30 a.m., and the wind smells of hot tar. Guests by the pool don't seem to mind, but then many are insurance adjusters, with a special interest in heavy equipment...
...McCutcheon calls an "astronomical escalation of people" has been unaccustomed congestion, a 28% inflation of real estate values in just 18 months and a perceptibly upscale -- Washingtonians would say ostentatious -- change in the appearance and style of some of Seattle's suburbs. With that has come a tendency to tar California with guilt by association -- for damage to the environment, for fast-talking wheeling and dealing, and for the drug trafficking among offshoots of Los Angeles gangs in the blue-collar districts of Tacoma. California has also become a political buzz word. "Any candidate can get a rise...
...your contemporary novels you portray harsh confrontation between black and white. In Tar Baby a character says, "White folks and black folks should not sit down and eat together or do any of those personal things in life." It seems hopeless if we can't bridge the abysses you see between sexes, classes, races...
Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, told a congressional panel the spill has caused "550 miles of oil, filthy foam and tar balls...
...dinosaur? Anyone who has ever acted on instinct and called it common sense. Everyone who has ever been zealous, fiercely loyal, ruthless, or even submissive or terrified at work. In examining the corporate stomping grounds, the book dredges up some worthwhile wisdom from the tar pits...