Peter was listening to the stately atmospheric pop of the Blue Nile, Talk Talk and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Lou Ferrari's environmental tape-collages; David obsessed over Bowie's Scary Monsters, Led Zeppelin and Richard Thompson.
People will give me tapes of things, and I tend to really like environmental tapes or motivational tapes.
But combined with rising labor costs and taxes, congestion and environmental red tape, companies — particularly those that ship many products outside the New York area — are going to think about how to bypass New Jersey.
The door is now open for petroleum (tar sands) and natural gas companies like SWN to operate under a fraction of the environmental red tape and land restrictions that had been in place for decades.
What it sees as bureaucratic "green tape" – ie, environmental regulation – has been high on its agenda, as it tries to breathe new life into stalled coal projects.
But the weapon the foreman feared most was carried by a separate group of agents of Brazil's national environmental agency: bright yellow tape measures.
9.40am: Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, announced yesterday that, following the results of the government's Red Tape Challenge, environmental regulations are to be "made simpler and more effective while remaining as strong as ever".
But instead, red tape and environmental issues stalled many projects.
Mr. Marshall's best-known works make use of environmental sounds that he taped on his travels.
Symphonie pour un homme seul (1952; later called Collage) was performed to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's composition of the same name and was the first performance in the United States of musique concrèt, or music constructed from tape-recorded environmental sounds.
11.16am: Ruth Davis, chief policy advisor at Greenpeace, says: 97% of people who responded to the Red Tape Challenge on environmental protection wanted the existing rules to be kept or made stronger.
