Word: globally
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...Global warming. Every respected scientist in the nation agrees that global warming is a real phenomenon. Specialists argue over the amount of warming, but no one contends that the greenhouse effect is a hoax--no one, that is, except America's leading armchair environmentalist, White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu...
President Bush himself talked during the campaign of countering the greenhouse effect with a "White House effect." He promised to convene personally an international conference on global warming at the White House. He reneged on these pledges; when Europeans actually held a conference in the Netherlands, Bush specifically instructed the U.S. delegate not to agree to any restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions...
...Houston economic summit in August, Bush avoided the global warming issue by arguing that it did not exist! That's what opponents of the 1977 Clean Air Act said about acid rain...
...fancy word for this approach to a mean, messy world is "unilateralism" -- Uncle Sam as global...
...fallout," predicts Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In large part, the U.S. and the world are paying for the excesses of the 1980s, in which companies, consumers and speculators lived far beyond their means. It may take as much global leadership and cooperation to avert a worldwide recession as it will to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait...