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Despite all this action, some environmentalists found the Watt endorsement and Ruckelshaus' ties to industry disturbing. Since 1976 he has been a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co., the huge Tacoma, Wash., forest-products firm that was named one of the nation's "Filthy Five" companies by Environmental Action, an environmental lobbying group. But others praised the nomination, giving Ruckelshaus high marks for his stewardship of the fledgling EPA from 1970 to 1973, when he fought consistently with the major automakers over air-pollution controls, banned a number of controversial herbicides and forced steelmakers and electric utilities...
...could doubt the wisdom of the choice. The dentist from Des Moines, Wash., may have been in failing health, but it was clear from the moment he set foot in the University of Utah Medical Center that Barney Clark was a dauntless spirit. "A rugged old Rocky Mountain sagebrush. Tough. Eager for life." That was how Dr. Chase Peterson, a university vice president, described the man who was to make medical history. Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial...
...Olympia, Wash...
...combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination and judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial pilot on such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA will be sending physician-astronauts on the next three shuttle flights. They will study the relationship between the eyes and inner-ear system, and the effects on the body of inertia and weightlessness...
Though nobody is willing to pronounce the experiment a runaway success, the initial returns have been so bullish that Sears will open seven more financial branches this week in cities from Tacoma, Wash., to Tallahassee, Fla., and 18 more in May. The encouraging results added a glow to Sears' announcement last week that its overall profits rose 33% in 1982, to $861.2 million, on revenues of $30 billion...