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...property, discourages economic development, raises municipal bills (and often taxes), and creates countless hazards whose cost is impossible to compute. Yet all the evidence indicates that letting pollution continue would be more expensive than spending the money needed to curb it. To save the U.S. from becoming a malodorous wasteland, experts agree, will cost nearly $100 billion in the next five years. About $30 billion of that will be required merely to halt pollution of the nation's waterways. The probable cost of cleaning up the air that Americans breathe is an astronomical $60 billion over a five-year...
...View from the Villages Binh Thoi, not far from Saigon, was once a prosperous farm village with red-tiled roofs, gas lamps and fertile coconut and orange groves that stretched as far as the eye could see. U.S. troops and Viet Cong guerrillas left it a wasteland. Chu Thao, a teacher from nearby Bien Hoa, describes what happened: "Not a blade of grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood...
...knew the way she started off that she didn't agree with me." Now there is a man who understands his wife and her memo style. "Beloved, to step out now would be wrong for your country and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future. Your friends would be frozen in embarrassed silence, and your enemies would be jeering. I am not afraid of time or lies or defeat. I love you always. Bird." And so Johnson yielded to the country's call-and Lady Bird...
...Chairman Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech...
...campus. Boredom loomed. For 12,000 students there was only one restaurant nearby and no cinema. Nanterre itself is a "bidonville," a honky-tonk town of shabby houses and grey shacks surrounded by huge expanses of dumps and cheap, concrete apartment buildings. Fitzgerald's ashheaps and Eliot's wasteland, they are Nanterre. A fantastic number required a shrink...