Word: globally
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cabot agrees that "if we aren't global in thought then we're not going to be competitive" and says HMC should concentrate its attention on foreign investment over the next decade, but he adds that this should not require a new strategy, just a broader playing field...
...growing number of politicians and economists think so, and they have come up with the idea of allowing companies to buy and sell the "right" to pollute as part of a plan to encourage them to clean up their operations. Ultimately, there could be a national or even global market that would treat pollution permits like stocks and bonds...
...just about any kind of pollutant. Last year the Government decreed at least a 15% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. But Washington is letting the four CFC manufacturers decide how to allocate the pain; they can buy and sell CFC production rights. Senator Wirth thinks that global warming could be countered by international trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Gorbachev flatly denied the story next day, and no other news organization got even a shred of confirmation that resignation was imminent. But the furor demonstrated CNN's growing impact as the world's most widely circulated TV news network. It also raised questions about whether, given that global clout, CNN exercised due journalistic caution when dealing with a potential bombshell...
...want to spend more on the homeless, education or the war on drugs. States and local jurisdictions are bidding for repairs in the country's deteriorating infrastructure: roads and bridges, mass transit, pollution-abatement facilities. A good case can be made for increased foreign aid so that America's global position will not shrink along with its military...