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- <text id=90TT0367>
- <title>
- Feb. 12, 1990: Grapevine:Taking Aim At Trash
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 12, 1990 Scaling Down Defense
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 26
- Grapevine
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- <body>
- <p> TAKING AIM AT TRASH. New York City has started a mandatory
- recycling program, with the threat of fines for uncooperative
- residents--and perhaps some stronger inducements. An elite,
- blue-uniformed squad of recycling officers are packing .38-cal.
- pistols. "They may be going into a basement or down an alley
- that is potentially dangerous," explains city sanitation
- official Anne Canty. Or run into an unruly Gothamite mixing his
- old newspapers with his empties.
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- </body>
- </article>
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