Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustrated [that] the state's housing programs are paralyzed. On the federal level funding has been cut 80 percent during the Reagan years. There is nothing left except local action and local commitment," Barrett said...
...turned out that little action by the Fed wasnecessary. As a precaution, the central bankinjected about $2 billion into the financialsystem on a day when it ordinarily would havedrained reserves...
Delegates from 100 nations will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week to decide whether to declare the giant of beasts an endangered species. Such an action could trigger a global ban on ivory trading, but some countries may not go along, and smuggling will no doubt continue. Only a sharp drop in demand for gleaming white tusks can save the elephant. See ENVIRONMENT...
...auto regulation, and California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile to 0.4 gram. Unless the Environmental Protection Agency ruled otherwise, automakers would then be ordered to slash...
Ironically, some California air-quality officials have raised strong objections to last week's House vote. They complain that a fine-print , provision in the federal action would end California's right to impose even tougher standards on off-road vehicles such as lawn mowers, dune buggies and construction equipment, which account for an estimated 16% of the state's smog. Says a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board: "While the bill applauds California's leadership, it ties our hands to control pollution in our own backyard...