Word: interims
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...first step toward a more reasoned approach to emission control was taken when the EPA granted a one-year extension of the compliance deadline. However, the administrator was obliged by the act to impose stringent interim standards which may still require the use of wastefully expensive catalyst technology...
...brass in Washington and all but one of its 59 field-office chiefs sent a telegram drafted by Walters asking Nixon to pick one of the FBI veterans-"among whom there is an inherent nonpartisanship"-as the new chief. Instead, he made the interim choice of Ruckelshaus, who had been the able head of the Environmental Protection Agency, without even bothering to inform Felt, who learned of the appointment from a reporter. The telegram elicited no response...
...sensibilities in the Administration have become so bruised in the infighting that another interim replacement, William Ruckelshaus, is already in trouble as acting director of the FBI. He replaced L. Patrick Gray III, who had resigned after being hopelessly compromised by destroying evidence...
Rogers maintained that the bombing was merely a continuation of longstanding U.S. policy in Indochina and a "meaningful interim action" in salvaging the ceasefire. To argue that the President had the constitutional authority to negotiate the Paris accord but does not have the power to continue the bombing in Cambodia, Rogers insisted, is to contend that "the Constitution contains an automatic self-destruct mechanism designed to destroy what has been so painfully achieved...
...Laurin and Tweedy, a victory in the Derby would embellish what has already become an unusual success story. Now 60, Laurin reportedly was on the verge of retiring to his native Quebec in 1971 when Tweedy hired him "on an interim basis" to replace his son, Roger, who had moved to the stable owned by Ogden Phipps. The elder Laurin promptly produced the stable's first Derby winner, Riva Ridge, which took last season's Belmont Stakes as well...