Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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-- The environment needs intensive care. The bill for nuclear-waste disposal stands at $50 billion; for clean water, $24 billion; for hazardous wastes, $15 billion.
Quite a few business leaders look toward both past and future with considerable misgivings. "The costs of all this are going to be horrendous in the 1990s," says Donald Clark, chairman of Household International. "We just overlooked major problems like drugs and our schools." Elmer Johnson, a , former executive vice...
The indebtedness and poverty of the Third World threaten the trend of democracy there. The indebtedness of the U.S., both to itself and to foreigners, threatens its prosperity at home and its influence abroad. The consequences of Japan's emergence as an economic superpower could end up dwarfing the current...
At minimum Washington will have to rebuild a Panamanian economy that American sanctions against Noriega have shattered. Unemployment in Panama has passed 20% and the banking system is a shambles, scarcely an environment conducive to stable democracy. Rebuilding could take years and put a new strain on a U.S. budget...
Once in the West, East Germans don't really want to hold on to their old cars. Of the 2,413 Trabis registered in West Germany, most are expected to be ditched for Volkswagens even as the drivers dream of Mercedes-Benz, Audis, BMWs and Porsches. And while Trabants account...