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...addition, the study argued that a more realistic cost effectiveness would be achieved by using the Superfund as it was intended-for rapid cleanup of conditions threatening lives and health. Declared the report: "In sum, with control, not action, the watchword for Superfund, the regions and the program have suffered...
...never got the bad news. Suddenly there is a blast of trumpets and the scene is abruptly transformed, flashed back to a glittering party. As the music gathers force, so does the action; magnificent chandeliers are reflected in a thousand champagne glasses. Enter Violetta, laughing. For now, the watchword is joy, but the last word must be, inevitably, tragedy...
...confirmed, Elizabeth Dole will take over a department where political astuteness, rather than transportation expertise, is the watchword. She will be responsible for portioning out billions of dollars to states and cities for highway, airport and mass-transit programs. She will have to implement many of the policies put into effect by Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry...
...still in progress, but the prevailing view in Moscow was that after moving so smoothly to take control of the party, Andropov thought it more prudent to hold back from assuming the post that Brezhnev himself had waited 13 years to take. Indeed, caution seemed to be the watchword for the Soviets' new leader. Andropov had been expected to put his own stamp on the party hierarchy almost immediately, but he made only two important appointments last week. In his first major speech as General Secretary, he offered no bold initiatives in domestic or foreign policy, although...
Histrionics, tantrums and murky intelligence reports have become the watchword of Reagan's foreign policy, and they serve well to obscure topics like justice and poverty. The current uproar over Libyan "hit squads"--of whose existence not one shred of evidence has yet been offered--is tailored to frighten. Circle the wagons, or so the reasoning goes...