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...cramped transportation and long hauls obviously didn't affect Watt's playing ability much. From 1960-62 he had the most successful career any Crimson lacrosse player has ever...
...dependence on foreign resources, to search now for oil and minerals in order to prevent the inevitable panic rush on lands later if those resources were shut off. He insists that regulatory interference has blocked such development, that the Interior Department has been arrogant and offensive, a poor landlord. Watt has already cut way back on enforcement and investigative personnel, and conservationists are frankly worried. Says one: "Now the environmental reviews and other checks simply won't get done. That's how these developers will get past the regulation barricades...
Talking about his opponents, Watt sounded combative, and his hide showed patches of thinness as he talked of a meeting he had just held with environmentalists. His temper had spilled over, and he had accused the others in the room of deliberately poisoning his reputation. The men present were so astonished at his fury that one of them, Bill Butler of the Audubon Society, warned his staff that Watt was too hostile to deal with right now. There were a couple of wildlife representatives at the meeting, and at one point, during a discussion about predators, Watt made no effort...
...Watt will be a strong adversary, and even his harshest detractors consider him incorruptible. But if he is to have a chance of succeeding, Watt must build wider coalitions, reach out beyond his own supporters. His intensity is both his strength and his vulnerability. He feels he has plenty of backing. "I know the power flow," he says cockily of the Republican margin in the Senate. But what if in the process of carrying out his part of the new mandate, he misjudges the flow and gets too far out in front of Ronald Reagan? In that case Watt himself...
...form; each of these columns has every 30th word or so underlined, apparently at random. Taken together, the underlined words from March 23 read, "Reagan revolution states and cities government intervention 'new federalism' business tax cut painful decisions deregulation relax existing regulations top slots Internior Secretary James Watt John Shad bureaucratic trenches On Capitol Hill labor laws Unions will fight back Outlook constitutional amendment convention runaway convention ROTC The Vietnam War military careers Tuition costs purple stamp 20 cents giving and receiving ends military muscle Arab-Israeli conflict Deng Xiaoping a reshuffle of command oaths and indoctrinations radical ideology...