Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...debt relief to developing nations in exchange for steps to protect rain forests and other resources, have not taken off in a big way. In the past year or so, only $100 million in debt has been forgiven in return for preserves in Costa Rica and elsewhere. The sticking point: Who will bear the cost of the debt relief? So far, private environmental groups have bought small amounts of Third World debt securities from commercial lenders, but the governments of the developed nations will have to put in more money if the debt-for-nature concept is to pick...
...building of garbage monuments to corporate "We love the environment too" advertising campaigns, have become an undifferentiated blur as everyone tries to wave the green flag at once. Nobody is against Earth Day, but the very breadth of this looming mega-event raises the question: What's the point...
Proponents argue that Earth Day 1990 will both challenge individuals and mobilize new constituencies such as minorities, the religious community and organized labor. The event's disciplined chairman and mastermind, San Francisco lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold...
...hero to such youths because of his reputation for standing up to the white establishment. In the early 1970s he headed the Milwaukee chapter of the original Black Panthers. In 1984 he was elected to the city's Common Council, where he frequently resorts to theatrics to make a point. In 1988, for example, he wore a bag over his head in the council's annual group photograph. He and his followers often attempt to disrupt public ceremonies by loudly blowing whistles...
...Your points are so overwhelmingly convincing and candid that I concede every point I made in my letter, and my faith in TIME is once again restored." (Big grin...