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...Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might be ready, indeed eager, to return to the flagrant emotionalism of the 1960s, though fired by new and different causes...
Gore has a few long-held obsessions, that's why--and this is one of them. He started worrying about global climate change as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1960s, before almost anyone on earth had heard of the subject, and as a Senator, he wrote a rousing manifesto on the subject, Earth in the Balance. But now he must sell an Administration approach he once would have called too cautious--one that is sure to get hammered by the greener-than-thou Europeans. If he comes home without an agreement, his environmentalist allies will jeer; if the U.S. agrees...
...rural town of Akron, N.Y., 25 miles east of Buffalo. By the time Paxon was a teenager, he was volunteering on the campaigns of local G.O.P. candidates and subscribing to the National Review--proof that he was conservative way before it was cool. The turmoil of the late 1960s only hardened his political views; when the 130 high school seniors at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo registered to vote in 1972, Paxon was one of only two who registered Republican. He was, he remembers proudly, "the only one with a Nixon poster in my locker...
...debating that the situation with both pesticides and working conditions have improved since the creation of the grape workers, there is no debating that the situation with both pesticides and working conditions have improved since the creation of the UFW by the late Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. Growers in mushrooms, roses and wine grapes have met their demands and have reached their desired standard of working conditions. However, in the field of table grapes, the situation has not improved enough...
Never has a small purple fruit caused so much heated debate. From the 1960s to the 1990s, California table grapes have been a bone of contention between labor activists and agricultural interests...