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...preserve the biosphere will not succeed unless the Third World goes along with them. The irony is that the laissez-faire, free- market rules that allowed the industrial world to prosper must now be suspended. "If the developing nations, home to 8 out of 10 people, repeat the pattern of development of the North," warns UNEP's Tolba, "if they reach the North's levels of consumer goods and fuel consumption, and if they continue to clear the forests, then our mutual destruction is assured...
...pattern continued for months. Something extraordinary would happen in the East -- down would come the barbed wire along the old Iron Curtain, off would go the light in the red star over the parliament building, home would go trainloads of Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime minister -- and the response from Washington was the sound of one hand clapping. There were schoolmarmish homilies about the need to "test" Gorbachev's slogan of new political thinking and complaints about what he had not done for the West lately...
...pattern would be tedious if it were not so deadly. Every time the government of El Salvador announces that, yes, the rebel offensive is finally over and the capital of San Salvador is safe again, the guerrillas pop up in yet another neighborhood...
...unleashed a torrent of condemnation. Critics asked why women, and for that matter men, could not make a temporary switch to a slower track. Why couldn't workers slow down and speed up depending on the changing demands of their personal lives? Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett foresees a "sequencing" pattern in which dual-career couples would alternate the times in which they focus heavily on their work. A mother or father might be intensely involved in a project for a period of time and thereby earn credits for time off to spend with the family during a slower period...
...standing, as he is, at the edge of a grove of young Paul Bunyans. He's talking to -- no, he's shouting at -- one of them. About the option play. How to execute it correctly. As he plants one foot and pivots decisively, moving his hands in a precise pattern that he's repeated thousands of times before, the young man in the football jersey barks...