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Despite the uncertainties, there is a broad consensus that nations should slow down the rate at which they are changing the atmosphere. Said West German Environment Minister Klaus Topfer at the Washington conference: "Worldwide action against the climatic threat is urgently required, even if the complicated scientific interrelationships of climatic change have not been fully understood...
...entire economy of Sweden. The shrinkage will effect more than 250,000 firms in 215 industries, ranging from the shipbuilders that construct aircraft carriers to the clothing companies that sew uniforms. Says Frank Shrontz, chairman of Boeing, the ninth largest U.S. defense contractor: "We are going to face a broad realignment across the whole defense spectrum, and I can't tell where that's going to hit us hardest...
...center we're looking for will be peer run--including homeless people and a broad spectrum of the Cambridge community," Boland said. It will be "multi-cultural, multiethnic," he added...
...sponsored by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee and Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts would require spoken health warnings in all TV and radio ads for beer and wine, including toll-free telephone numbers that would provide callers with information on how to cope with alcoholism. The legislation has garnered broad bipartisan support, in part because of studies showing that alcohol abuse costs the U.S. an estimated $136 billion every year. The annual health cost of smoking is about $52 billion...
Philosophically, free trade is a Western--especially an American--ideal based on notions of competitive advantage, equality and reciprocity. I do not believe the philosophical underpinnings of Japanese thought or historical records supports acceptance of such. In a broad sense, the U.S. has been having a trade war with Japan since the mid-19th century. The most recent string of bouts was rekindled in the early 1970s concerning textile, followed by steel, consumer electronics, automobiles, semiconductors, et cetera...