Word: developer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain...
...year is a long time in coalition politics. Saddam may be betting that tensions and disagreements will develop between European capitals and Washington, between the Western and Arab states. International resolve could well weaken, or the Arab man in the street might grow restive under the heavy foreign presence. After a year in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, the huge army taking shape there is likely to be run down and frustrated...
Chinese leaders, aware of the true severity of the crisis, have at last begun to focus the nation's scientific talent on the water issue. The country has been working to develop salt-tolerant and drought-resistant crops, and it has begun to have some success in reclaiming salt-damaged land...
...time, anyway. Most nations seemed to realize that if the superpowers were no longer going to police the world, a global Neighborhood Watch had better develop -- at least to counter this particular bogeyman. As extraordinary as the harmony of world reaction was, the circumstances that created it were equally improbable. It is not often that the world produces a dictator who so blatantly disregards the laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied...
George Bush's hands would have been freer if the U.S. had used the past 10 years to develop an effective policy that reduced its thirst for foreign crude. It has not done so for two major reasons. First, concerns about protecting the environment have hampered the development of domestic alternative energy sources such as offshore oil and coal. Second and more important, any effort to wean the U.S. from foreign energy sources would require forcing consumers to pay a higher price for gasoline and other fuels. In the early 1980s, when the price of crude rose to more than...