Word: help
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...pell-mell pursuit of profits by businesses has long been a major source of pollution. But could such greed be used instead to help preserve the environment? A 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...
...America. A place where "there's a job for everyone who wants one"; where "women working outside the home can be confident their children are in safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
Where to from here? Most likely, politics as usual: Congress will insist on a more enlightened use of Head Start's appropriation, and the President will | someday campaign against the Democrats for failing to accommodate the larger number of kids he was ready to help...
...jobs elsewhere. Three huge commercial projects, which the city mistakenly hoped would revive prosperity, opened and failed before the 1986 layoffs, though Moore hints that they came partly as a response to GM's cuts. Says Flint Mayor Matthew S. Collier: "Anyone who knows Flint can't help realizing the film is fiction. If this is a documentary, I wonder about all those PBS shows on whales and dolphins...
Arab capitals, aware of the implications of the new statistics, are warning of higher tension and instability in the Middle East. Some of them hint at Soviet-American collusion; most assume that Israeli hard-liners will count on immigrants to help tighten their grip on the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that...