Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...together with pork strategy." Each of the armed services, the defense industry and members of Congress will try to push major reductions off onto someone else while retaining as much as possible for themselves. Warns Phillip Karber of BDM Corp., a leading defense consulting firm: "If we do not % set a direction of where our force structure can go, you can bet that we are going to end up paying more and getting less...
...that singers have resonance where other mortals have brains. But I do have a brain, and I can make a decision based on something more than notes." Many of her decisions to walk out of productions were based on directors' plunking her down in the middle of a set, then giving her no more guidance than go right, go left, go upstage. "I cannot carry an opera by myself," she complains. "If the set is wrong, I'm the one who anguishes over...
Under Bush's plan, the Government would set a national limit on emissions of sulfur dioxide, a prime cause of acid rain. But, instead of dictating how to meet the target, the Government would let the marketplace determine the cheapest, most efficient way to get the job done. Each company would be allotted an acceptable level of SO2 production, amounting to its fair share of the national limit. If a company managed to pollute less than its share, it could receive permits representing the shortfall, which it could sell to firms that could not meet their target. That is where...
...trading of pollution rights within metropolitan areas, the Bush plan would make the practice more widespread. At first, pollution permits could be bought and sold throughout a state, and eventually the market would be nationwide. Though Bush's current target is SO2, such a trading system could be set up for just about any kind of pollutant. Last year the Government decreed at least a 15% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. But Washington is letting the four CFC manufacturers decide how to allocate the pain; they can buy and sell CFC production rights. Senator Wirth thinks that...
...combined marquee value of the names Hollywood and Gore Vidal probably equals the Latin American debt. Judging by its cover alone, drillions of people are going to buy this book. Those who also read it may be mildly unsettled to discover that much of the novel is set not in Hollywood but in Washington. However, Vidal's premise -- that both these places are pretty much alike -- is amusing enough to keep the customers happy...