Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Clean Air Act and distracted by the twin threats of recession and war, Congress has no major environmental initiatives pending. The Bush Administration, all but abandoning the President's promise to be an "environmentalist" in the Oval Office, has not followed up on its decision to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level status, nor has it come through with an adequate plan to protect the threatened spotted owl. Regarding global issues, the Administration temporizes on threats to the atmosphere and lags in, rather than leads, efforts to deal with dangers to the land and oceans. Says Senator Albert...
...failing to protect the environment is ultimately more costly than preserving it. Consider the case of Eastern Europe. For decades, the communist-bloc countries stoked their industrial production without regard for the environmental consequences. Only this year was the scope of the resulting ecocatastrophe revealed to the world. Zoltan Illes, Hungary's Deputy State Secretary for Environment and Nature Protection, estimates that health problems and loss of production because of air and water pollution reduce his nation's gross domestic product more than...
...been convicted of murder. The man argues in his defense that the police made an illegal search of his "home" -- the cardboard boxes he used as a chest of drawers as he sheltered beneath a highway overpass -- in order to get their evidence. Does the Fourth Amendment protect cardboard boxes? What is the legal definition of home? What confers the sanctity of home? A lease or a deed? Four walls? How thick or thin? Must home have doors and locks...
Whatever animals get the gift of intelligence, it is the player's job to nurture and protect them, guiding their technological development by directing investments in science, medicine, agriculture and the arts. But playing the Almighty, I discover, is complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues. Cut back in the philosophy department, and wars break out. Let the master race linger too long in the industrial age, and the planet is choked with pollution. If, on the other hand, you steer your beings adroitly toward the ages of information and nanotechnology (molecule building...
While defense lawyers were said to be shocked by Darci's confession, the prosecution remains convinced that it is part of a cover-up designed "to protect his father and others." Premeditated murder, the charge against both father and son, carries a sentence of 12 to 30 years...