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Brundtland is chair of the World Commission on Environmental Development, which in 1987 released an environmental report entitled "Our Common Future." Although the United Nations chose not to adopt the measures described in the report, "Our Common Future" did stimulate interest in international cooperation concerning environmental matters...
Meanwhile, debate on the specifics of the tentative plan has shifted to whether Cambridge should be the first to adopt such a comprehensive environmental plan or whether the city should wait and work with neighboring towns to develop a regional plan...
...wouldn't be mandatory," Wofford says, adding that he hopes to adopt a Kennedy-style appeal to enlist support for the program...
...Tennessee native and his wife went to India after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1948 to study economics and Gandhi's civil disobedience tactics. They wrote about their findings in India Afire and proposed that the American civil rights movement adopt nonviolence as a credo...
President Bush, who can read a Nielsen rating as well as an opinion poll, declined to criticize "a very popular television show." He praised Quayle's speech in a private call to the Vice President, but failed to adopt the message as his own. Throughout the improbable spectacle of a White House pitted against a sitcom character and her real-life defenders, there was a serious undercurrent. The growth in fatherless families, after all, is encouraged less by television than by welfare policies that punish poor mothers who marry -- policies that Bush and Quayle should change if they are serious...