Word: setting
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...been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks ago, in one of the largest settlements of its kind, Conoco offered the families up to $27 million to relocate...
Jose Lutzenberger, an ecologically oriented agronomist, is Brazil's most unflinching environmentalist. Lutzenberger aroused the anger of the administration of former President Jose Sarney by daring to declare publicly that the rest of the world had a legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
...also vowed to protect Brazil's last remaining Atlantic forests and gravely threatened savannas. Some Brazilians are concerned that the new Secretary might be too inflexible and idealistic for the rough realities of government, but Lutzenberger, 63, calls himself a "possibilist." The Gaia Foundation, a private organization he set up, finances problem-solving environmental projects. Example: an effort to help poor settlers improve agricultural techniques so that they do not have to clear as much forest land to produce enough crops...
...first week, despite a 30- to 45-minute wait to see the notorious XYZ collection of explicit photos of gay sex acts. If the current pace keeps up -- and it shows no sign of slackening -- the display will easily break the record of 29,000 viewers set by a computer-art exhibit in 1987. After Barrie was indicted, a federal judge ruled that law-enforcement officials could not interfere with the exhibit until the gallery director's trial concludes. That is not likely to occur before the scheduled closing...
Georgians are of two minds about how to gain their freedom. The centrist Popular Front movement advocates working through the republic's supreme soviet to advance the cause of independence. The National Forum, a coalition of seven * political parties and national movements set up last month, rejects any form of cooperation with what it calls the Soviet "puppet" government. The group wants to hold alternative elections for a new national congress...