Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...agribusinesses are pushing a measure called CAREFUL, which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing...
...testing the other side's nerves. He has pushed hard at Western determination to keep embassies in Kuwait open in the face of harsh Iraqi threats. He is running his tankers through the international armada, pressing to see if they will be forcibly stopped. Both these gambits could easily set off a military clash. At the same time, Saddam has issued almost daily statements claiming he is open to negotiations without preconditions. So far, no one has taken those very seriously, but one day they might. "Time is now on Saddam's side," says a senior Israeli intelligence officer...
When this seemingly innocuous phrase appeared in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, it set off alarm bells as surely as ant pheromones trigger the defense mechanisms of a threatened colony. Critics scrambled out of the corners of the academy to attack Wilson's ideas as dangerously deterministic. To suggest, as he did, that human actions were more hard-wired than generally believed threatened to upset the balance of nurture so carefully guarded by those who held that environment, not heredity, shaped behavior...
...never set my sights on this job. But I came here feeling the Reagan Administration would find a way to cut government expenditures. I don't really like living here in Washington. I didn't feel I was accomplishing anything important. But when Phil Gramm and I got together on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings in 1985, I changed my view. I thought one person could make a difference...
...that is not good enough. Whatever we are fighting for, it is surely not so that the oil ministers of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can once again drink tea together around a conference table. There should be a new understanding that all efforts to allocate production and set prices for oil are an affront to both the values and the interests of the U.S. During the first oil crisis in 1973, people who urged an occupation of the oil fields to end the oil gouge were dismissed as crazy. Surely occupying the oil fields and not ending...