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...They think about consequences, instead of justgoing with the spur-of-the-moment emotions.Everyone is afraid to get hurt. Everyone's gotbigegos," Mindich explains...
...Community as a whole. Last January, E.C. environment commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana got initial approval for a tax to be levied on fuels that give off carbon dioxide. He figures this will eventually push the price of natural gas up about 30% and coal 60%, increases that will spur businesses and consumers to conserve energy. The E.C. has been helping finance development of clean technologies, such as 100%-recyclable cars and low-polluting power generators, since...
Since the U.S. market is fairly open, a GATT accord is expected to spur new exports for American firms while adding little in the way of foreign competition that U.S. products do not already face. Carla Hills, U.S. Trade ! Representative, estimates that a successful Uruguay Round (so named for the talks' original venue) would generate an additional $5 trillion in world output over the next decade, of which the American share would be a hefty $1.1 trillion. It's "like writing a check," explains Hills, "to every American family of four for $17,000, payable over 10 years...
...states:"...the only time foreign investors got really excited about Peru was during the 19th century when 80 percent of the government revenues were derived from the export of guano (which is, well, bird shit)." Guano is a fertilizer obtained in the coastal islands that was used extensively to spur agricultural output, feeding an increasing world population. Does it matter to Peru's current crisis that it exported guano in the 19th century...
...Ferragamo, necessity was the spur to invention. In the 1930s and '40s, metal and leather, the staples of shoemaking, were scarce in wartime Italy, so he experimented with what came to hand -- straw, raffia, bark, even fishskin. Another local material, cork, launched one of his greatest inventions, the wedge. The precursor of the familiar wedged heel was a shoe with four corks from local wine bottles sewn together to make a heel. Later in the 1940s, he made uppers of cellophane, after noticing how strong and durable the material was when he twisted a bunch of candy wrappers...