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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Throughout the world, environmentalists look to America to provide leadership, but instead the nation sits on its hands like a perplexed giant. Both individually and at the policy level, Americans seem to be all for environmental protection, so long as it does not disrupt business as usual. Though the U.S. is the world's biggest contributor to the industrial and automobile emissions that threaten to wreak havoc with the global climate, none of the past three Administrations have delivered a national energy policy...
...Electric blankets. They lie right on top of the body for hours at a time. It's a good idea to warm the bed and then unplug the blanket before going to sleep -- or better still, get a quilt instead...
...Houston, Baker warned Shevardnadze that resorting to repression could damage superpower relations. At the same time critics charge that propping up Gorbachev's failing economy could retard rather than promote reform, especially since the aid is being delivered to central authorities instead of the individual republics. Gorbachev has come under fire for balking at truly radical market solutions, settling for half measures. Critics say he is undermining his commitment to private enterprise by trying to root out the thug-infested black market when he should be encouraging its entrepreneurial spirit...
...first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...
...usual retail price, a requirement that is specified in the stores' leases and that distinguishes such discount centers from ordinary malls. Try on a $218 Ann Taylor dress, slashed to $69.90. Reebok Sole Trainers that normally retail for $85, at $55. Anne Klein II perfume at $17.95 instead of the usual $32. More than 1.5 million shoppers , have done so since Sawgrass opened its doors in October. "Everybody is looking for bargains these days," says William Cohen, 36, waving a pair of jeans selling at $30 -- half-price -- at the jammed Guess? outlet...