Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kicking, scratching and dunking are part of the daily ordeal of water-polo players. At age 29, with a wife and a career to attend to, Terry Schroeder might have done without the punishment. But Schroeder, captain of the U.S. team for the second consecutive Olympics, is haunted by the silver medal he and the squad won in Los Angeles four years ago. Haunted by silver? Leading the top-ranked Yugoslavs by a score of 5-2 in the final game and needing an outright win, the U.S. team got caught in a riptide. The Americans gave up three goals...
Balfour, once Hogan's editor at the Enquirer, asks him, "Remember when I sent you on the bread-and-water bit?" Hogan's ice-blue eyes glisten as he reinforces himself with a Guinness and recalls the caper: "I was a proper bum, with mud on me, crummy clothes, tacky shoes. In East Hampton ((N.Y.)), I went to a swank estate, and the maid pulled a gun on me the size of a howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds...
...most contaminated area we have found." Dukakis insists that he has been working hard to cope with a mess he inherited. "I didn't pollute Boston harbor, but I'm the guy cleaning it up," he has said. Yet environmentalists charge that he resisted complying with the Clean Water Act for so long that costs skyrocketed and federal funds dried up. Mike Deland, the Environmental Protection Agency's tough administrator for New England, says that by stalling, Massachusetts has made "the most expensive public-policy mistake in the history of New England...
When Dukakis began his first term in 1975, there was little pressure to continue Sargent's efforts. The EPA, which turned the screws on other cities, was lax about Boston. It waited nearly five years before rejecting an application by the Dukakis administration for a waiver from the Clean Water Act. "Dukakis wasn't there, but no one else was either," recalls Judge Garrity. As a result, the proportion of adequately treated sewage dropped from 4% to 2% between 1976 and 1980; in contrast, Illinois took advantage of 90% federal funding so that Chicago could increase its treated sewage from...
After four years of inactivity during Democrat Edward King's administration, Dukakis aides say, their boss began to turn the situation around when he returned to office in 1983. The legislature gave responsibility for sewers and water to a newly created water-resources authority. Although his supporters give Dukakis credit for pushing that legislation, others say the bill was going nowhere until Judge Garrity threatened a ban on new construction unless sewage treatment was upgraded. Says Douglas Foy, of the Conservation Law Foundation: "Dukakis was discreet to the point of being invisible...