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Voting largely along party lines, the House passed the bill 258 t0151- a margin insufficient to override a veto-after an impassioned plea by West Virginia Democrat Harley Staggers. "Do you want to go home and tell your farmers, your small businessmen and little plastic companies that you were down here trying to help them?" he asked. By passing the measure, the Democrats figured to satisfy angry demands from constituents that they do something to ease the energy pinch-and to pin political liability for killing the bill squarely on the President. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, a leader...
...rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong'" Replied the resident physician: "Nothing, madam, it's a plastic plant...
Cases of Money. Satisfied that his colleague was unharmed, Minter followed instructions. He dressed himself in jeans and a sports shirt, stashed two plastic suitcases full of cash into a borrowed Jeep, and drove north on Interstate 400 for some 30 miles. For the last few miles, he picked up an escort-one car carrying two men that drove ahead of him at a distance, another car with one occupant that followed. At an appointed sign, the courier placed both suitcases on the shoulder of the highway. Without waiting to watch the pickup, he turned and drove back to Atlanta...
...Doctors have long suspected that industrial exposure to vinyl chloride, a plastic substance, is dangerous. Their suspicions were further aroused recently when abnormalities were discovered in the livers of a number of workers in a B.F. Goodrich Co. chemical plant in Louisville, Ky., and it was found that four of the men had a malignancy called angiosarcoma of the liver. Last week the cancer was discovered in two more of the employees and confirmed as a contributing cause of death in an employee of a West Virginia plant. Although the action comes too late to save the workers who have...
...elementary school tournaments, in playgrounds with plastic pieces and foldaway cardboard checkerboards, I began to get the recognition I knew I had always deserved. I knew that there was no need to compromise: I could be both a grandmaster and President of the United States. I could beat people two and three times my size. Even adults--especially my parents--began to marvel at my abilities...