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...nice/ To stir their campfire with a stick and drown that fire twice./ Now, it's no more Mr. Nice Bear, 'cause I've had enough of you./ Just one last time I'll speak my mind and here's what you better do:/ Wipe out your campfire, beat out the embers, drown it with water all the way through./ Get all the red out; make sure it's dead out. Or Smokey the Bear will break you in two." Like a match, no doubt...
That will wipe out 5,000 jobs directly and perhaps 12,000 in total, counting retail clerks, bartenders and others indirectly dependent on mill payrolls-a hefty proportion of an area work force that numbers no more than 200,000. And it will not be the end. A few days after Sheet & Tube's announcement, U.S. Steel said it would lay off 200 workers at its Youngstown plant. Though the company described the step as "routine," Youngstowners are well aware that U.S. Steel is seriously considering building a modern steel complex in Conneaut, 50 miles away. If it decides...
...want five minutes alone with the guy. I'd wipe the floor with the guy!" said Jerome Moskowitz, father of Stacy, one of Son of Sam's 13 shooting victims. Added Neysa Moskowitz, mother of the slain girl: "I must see the face of this animal, this beast, this worthless human who took my baby's life. I don't know a death too horrible for this...
...your car to the man who wears the star," promise those familiar Texaco ads hailing the supposed virtues of the crisply uniformed gas station attendant. Yet more and more these days, American motorists find that pulling into a gas station can be a lonely experience-no smiling greeting, no wipe of the windshield, all too often not even an attendant. Sometimes indeed the station itself has disappeared, its facilities closed up entirely or transformed into animal hospitals, used-car lots or fruit stands...
...down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using it to water plants or wipe off dirty windows. Some are changing sheets only once every ten days to reduce the need for laundry water. A few zealots are giving up ice cubes in their drinks to save on water and on the electricity used to manufacture ice. The wife of one Department of Agriculture specialist even uses...