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...groups grade Watt's successor and nearly flunk...
William Ruckelshaus, who replaced Burford at EPA, concedes it will be hard to defuse the issue. "Reagan's environmental image is hurt by the style and the approach of both my predecessor and [former Interior Secretary James] Watt," Ruckelshaus told TIME. "What happened here in the first couple of years of the Reagan Administration is not easy to defend...
...still have a few years left for that." Reminded that last year at Wimbledon she was saying such a dominance was impossible, what with all the good young players coming up, Martina gave a 300-watt grin and admitted, "I lied." Last week, with her mid-size Yonex racquet doing the talking, she told some tennis truths that no one now playing can possibly deny. And perhaps set a standard of all-around play that will endure for the rest of this century...
...noisiest liberalization is a controlled cacophony emanating from the more than 800 private radio stations that crowd the FM radio band. Their size varies from that of Radio Service Tour Eiffel, a 1,500-watt operation that is indirectly backed by Paris Mayor Chirac, to Radio Panorama, operated by a baker and his wife with a 500-watt transmitter in their garage in suburban Vitry-sur-Seine. The private stations have taken an estimated 20% of the audience away from the five established, and at least partly state-controlled, stations that monopolized the air waves until 1982. Surveying everything from...
...Arnett makes James Watt look like St. Francis of Assisi...