Word: objections
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Despite assurances that the insecticide poses no threat to humans, many people object to the state's program of spraying malathion from helicopters over a 400-sq.-mi. area that includes Los Angeles and Orange counties. Last week Pasadena passed an ordinance that effectively outlaws spraying within city limits by prohibiting aircraft from flying at altitudes of less than 700 ft. Despite the objections, Governor George Deukmejian plans to continue the spraying. Pasadena is considering filing misdemeanor charges against the pilots involved in the anti-medfly mission...
Rosovsky's writing is, for the most part, clear and forceful, although some readers may object that it is a little on the cutesy side. Chapter One is a perfect example; it is written as a Japanese-style letter of introduction in which he refers to himself...
...University: An Owner's Manual is clearly not what it purports to be: a helpful guide to an unfamiliar object. Rosovsky's agenda is to defend the university system from its critics on all sides: disgruntled junior faculty, misinformed student activists, and right-wingers on the model of Allan Bloom and E.D. Hirsch...
...controllers and whether these controllers passed the information on to the local controllers. Tapes reveal that the Avianca crew informed the regional center that its fuel was insufficient to reach Boston, but this information apparently was not relayed in the "hand-off" between controllers. Still, the pilot did not object when the plane was then placed on a routine approach to Kennedy that, because of heavy traffic, took 38 minutes...
...object of their conversations is a new eight-by-eight foot painting which has been hanging on the dining hall's mantel since exam period. The work, a textured, abstract painting, was produced by Jerry Webster, a young artist from Jeffersonville...