Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald is a graduate of Syracuse University, the Harvard School of Business Administration and the OSS in World...
Speaking of greasing the hand that feeds, pork-barrel politics is not the only tired theme Whorehouse exhausts. Nothing here is new, least of all the facetious revelation that "Texas has a whorehouse in it." Well hot damn. Maybe now all those wealthy writin' types will shelve the noble-madam, respectable-brothel routine. Or maybe they'll keep on prostituting themselves--black gold, you know, Texas...
...blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
...radioactive sludge. Because it has jurisdiction over the entire medical area as well as portions of 15 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, the Unitversity is the area's largest college producer of low-level wastes, Interex spokesman Joseph Rosenberg explains. In 1978, Interex hauled away about 3500 30-gallon barrels of Harvard-generated liquid sludge, for about $50 a barrel. Now, says Jacob A. Shapiro of the University's office of environmental health and safety, Harvard is paying about twice that to haul its wastes all the way to Washington. Rosenberg says "it is very, very likely that costs have doubled...
Carter's promises to balance the budget (world record: most daring fiscal pronouncement) and not to import an additional barrel of oil (U.S. record: optimism) have put him in embarrassing binds. So did his pledge to hold all those news conferences, which were designed to break some kind of record and shame the reclusive Nixon...