Word: wheelings
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Leroy's fate was sealed, it seemed, when a Bruay youth named Jean-Pierre, who was with the group that had originally discovered Brigitte's body, testified that he had seen a bald, corpulent man behind the wheel of a white Citroën near the empty lot at the hour of the crime. When it turned out that Leroy, who is partially bald and stocky, owned a white Peugeot, Jean-Pierre decided that the Citroën really was a Peugeot after...
Debate. The quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that the interim standards are still too stiff. General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg pronounced himself "dismayed"; Henry Ford II pledged to "examine the avenues of administrative, legislative and legal recourse open to us" to get both the interim and final standards softened. The contrasting denunciations unintentionally symbolized what Ruckelshaus himself called...
...generations, the schools have had a mission in the U.S. that went well beyond simple learning. Writing in 1848, Horace Mann declared that education was "the great equalizer of the conditions of men-the balance-wheel of the social machinery." Most Americans would readily agree. To Mann and those who followed him, the public school system was what made U.S. democracy possible and guaranteed its prosperity as well...
...more than credentials. They must become more concerned with enhancing their students' lives -with helping a Maynard find wisdom or an Alsop acquire seasoning. Education may not be "the great equalizer of the conditions of men," as Horace Mann hoped, but it can still serve as a "balance-wheel of society" if it offers students different routes to follow according to their individual abilities and aspirations...
Although the AEC'S assurance has not slowed the heated objections of environmentalists and local politicians, the chances of stopping the next two blasts are slim. But opponents are now trying to ensure that Wagon Wheel's five bombs sound the death rattle of the nuclear-drilling program. The idea of 140 more subterranean nuclear explosions is "absolutely out of the question," says U.S. Senator Floyd Haskell of Colorado, who along with others is concerned about triggering earthquakes. "I just don't know what would happen seismically after you've wracked the earth 140 times," says...