Word: conservationism
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What had happened between the two oil shocks was the development of perhaps the world's most coherent and effective energy program. The entire thrust of Japanese energy policy starting in the early 1970s was to make less oil do more. Average annual oil consumption per person in Japan...
While this frenzy of rangeland transformation has made money for some, for others it has raised the specter of an environmental calamity. Explains Steve Meyer, executive vice president of the Montana association of conservation districts: "When you remove the vegetation on rangelands, you're depleting a resource. If steps...
Though land-use regulation is the virtual preserve of state and local governments, Colorado Republican Senator William Armstrong has introduced a "sodbuster bill" backed by the Reagan Administration and the Montana Stockgrowers Association, a group traditionally opposed to land-use controls. It would deny federal payments of any kind for...
DIED. Ivan Tors, 66, king of the not-so-wild beasts as producer of wholesome outdoor adventure films and TV series such as Flipper, Gentle Ben, Daktari and Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion and longtime crusader for conservation of wildlife; of a heart attack; in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, where...
Even with spending reduced, TIME'S board concluded, the Government will have to boost its tax revenues. The easiest option would be to reverse President Reagan's program of income tax cuts, but several board members, including James McKie and Rimmer de Vries, argued against that course. Reason...