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...national goal to develop the next generation of environmentally friendly machines and industrial processes -- seeing this as a way that developed countries can strengthen their position in the world economy. The developing nations, still saddled with old, inefficient production techniques, insist that they will never be able to curb pollution without preferential access to new processes and equipment. Some experts fear that both sides have unrealistic expectations of technology, as if it were a magic carpet that would allow primitive societies to skip the Industrial Revolution and go straight to the environmentally friendly 21st century. But after weeks of debate...
...along with its success has come a remarkable degree of opposition. A loose network of "exit counselors" seeks to pressure church members into quitting. Universities that welcome all manner of oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...
...reorganize or go out of business. "By having little discipline, you create a huge playing field for a lot of ghouls to make a living," he says. "They're all feeding at the trough." For all the richness of his metaphors, Zell has a point. Tight deadlines could curb Chapter 11 abuses by encouraging companies to get out of court quickly and return to the business of surviving in the marketplace without life support. Or, if that's impossible, to close up shop and allow their creditors to split the remaining assets...
...Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black former Congresswoman who is running for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, sat in her campaign headquarters in South Central. Across the street a block- long Thrifty Drug Store lay gutted by fire, its ANNIVERSARY SALE banner still flapping over the curb. Yet Burke is hopeful that the election of a new representative from the inner city to the powerful five-member board may help get local resources flowing back to the neighborhood. "For the past 10 years the suburbs have been dominant," she says. "Now we are going to move into another...
...doled out $45 billion in subsidies last year, $4,100 a farmer, even though farming generated a tiny 3.5% of European output. Despite seeking their own, albeit smaller, subsidies from Washington, American farmers resent the E.C.'s largesse and threaten to fight any GATT treaty that fails to curb...