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...larger audience than Norway's 4.2 million people. But what really hurled her center stage was her appointment as chairman of the U.N. commission on the environment in October 1984. Nine hundred days later, the commission released what has come to be known as the Brundtland Report, a document so blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever to serve as U.N. Secretary-General...
...spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill contingency plan "the greatest piece of maritime fiction since Moby Dick." But he had approved the document...
Under the terms of the 1977 document, the two schools had a joint fund for soliciting donations from post-1976 graduates. But, in July, Harvard President Derek C. Bok and former Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner announced that they will now fundraise separately, Their rationale: Two separate funds will help boost donations from recent graduates...
Union supporters ratified the contract by a vote of 1151-98 days after the agreement was reached. And the two chief negotiators, joined by union contract administrator Marie Manna and a host of lawyers, spent the rest of the summer ironing out the final language of the document...
Union supporters ratified the contract by a vote of 1151-98 days after the agreement was reached. And the two chief negotiators, joined by union contract administrator Marie Manna and a host of lawyers, spent the rest of the summer ironing out the final language of the document...