Word: 1990s
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...growing commercial challenge posed by North America, Japan and the fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s and beyond. West European governments are curbing their interventionist instincts and freeing businesses to make profits. Even when a socialist government was returned to power in France last year, it conceded the benefits of free enterprise by pledging not to renationalize the enterprises that its conservative predecessors had shifted...
...animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors discover there is a larger mission at hand, a crusade to join. Between the birth of Christ and the Pilgrims' landing, perhaps several species a year became extinct. By the 1990s the extinction rate may reach several species an hour, around the clock. American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock and recruit others to the preservationist's cause. "We don't just want you to come here," says David Anderson of the New Orleans Audubon Park. "We're trying...
...state capitals but in individual districts. Already, schools in Dade County, Rochester and Toledo have taken the initiative to raise pay, restructure curriculums and monitor results. "In the first phase of reform, it was state executives who led the way," says former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander. "In the 1990s, reform will be led by parents and taxpayers." That is, if they care enough to pay the price...
...NASA is poised to make a similar mistake with its next major project, the $32 billion Freedom space station, scheduled to go into full operation in the late 1990s. Like the shuttle, it is being presented as a widely versatile project that will provide for the needs of scientists, engineers and space explorers. But without a focused, long-range program, those needs are not clear...
...with 37% of its oil supplies, up from 27% in 1985. Since foreign oil enters the country mostly by tanker, growing imports only increase the odds of new spills. According to projections by Ohio Democrat Mary Oakar, chairwoman of the House Economic Stabilization Subcommittee, by the end of the 1990s as much as 90% of the oil consumed in the U.S. could arrive by tanker, up from about 65% now. A serious, renewed campaign of energy conservation would help stem that tanker flow and pay other fringe benefits as well. But as long as foreign crude remains relatively cheap, that...