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...ostrich disappeared from history, but the owner, the renowned yachtsman and orator Ted Turner, stayed in view. In a gallant gesture, intended to divert the attention of paying customers from the inept foolery of his athletes, he challenged Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies to a match race in which each of them would push a baseball around the bases with his nose. Turner won, though he lost a good deal of skin from his face when he skidded in the dirt...
...Love Canal report was released the same week that the EPA set new standards for hazardous waste disposal on land, culminating six years of tug-of-war between corporations and citizens' groups. The Environmental Defense Fund, which has been sharply critical of the EPA, described the new guidelines as "a mixed bag"; the public interest group claimed that the regulations were adequate to control new dumps but not restrictive enough on the 2,000 hazardous sites already in existence. Nonetheless, the EPA's 500-page rulebook requires the monitoring of contamination levels near waste sites...
...always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles are still reported to be going on within the P.R.I...
...world and the next. Drawn to the blankly fuzzy, humming screen of the living-room TV late one night, Carol Anne speaks to them, and is heard and seduced and swallowed by them into the restless heart of the house. The film's last hour documents a harrowing tug of wills between Carol Anne's from and the spectral army surrounding them; between the spirits and two specialists, a parapsychologist (Beatrice Straight) and a child-voiced psychic (Zelda Rubinstein), who exert their powers to "cleanse" the house; and ultimately among the spirits, fighting to release the child...
...been there [at rent board meetings], you may understand the delicate relations of members of the board. Sometimes it's like a tug of war," he says. "I realize that sometimes it looks like we're stumbling or mumbling in our beard. But tenants come in and only see one case when we could have 20 that night and be there til three in the morning. We have to dispense with cases in a manner that is most comfortable...