Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This approach might justify not building more than one advanced Seawolf attack submarine. The reliable Los Angeles class is still the best attack sub in the world, fully capable of protecting American vessels against enemy prowlers...
...Earth Corps is the inspiration of James Pinkerton, the 31-year-old Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Planning. Pinkerton did not begin by thinking about trees, but rather about the wreckage of America's inner cities and the prospects that face young black males. Looking for an approach to the problem, he considered the way that the Army, at its best, trains people -- teaches them discipline, teamwork and such values as courage, honor, strength, loyalty, pride. The experience, when all goes well, can transform lives. The welfare system institutionalizes an abject status quo and produces generations of angry...
...made the trading of pollution rights the centerpiece of his plan to combat acid rain across the U.S. His proposal has attracted an ideologically diverse band of supporters, from conservative economists, who despise standard types of Government regulations, to environment-minded legislators, who are ready for a fresh approach to pollution control. Says Senator Timothy Wirth, a Colorado Democrat: "We're not going to be able to make a dent in environmental problems unless we can harness the forces of the marketplace...
...flexibility that such a program would give industry. A plant found to be violating air-quality standards would not have to shut down immediately if its owner could buy time by obtaining extra pollution permits. Observes Daniel Dudek, an economist with the Environmental Defense Fund: "The beauty of this approach is that it provides environmental performance without great bloodletting in the economy...
...York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore, not a chin puller, not a dreary thing," Safire says, trying to summarize his approach. "You don't have to be solemn to be serious." Then with a sense of satisfaction at the epigrammatic elegance of that last sentence, he adds, "I think that's original...