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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...farmers get (unproved) genetically modified rice, and AstraZeneca gets the 'gold.'" Potrykus was dismayed by such negative reaction. "It would be irresponsible," he exclaimed, "not to say immoral, not to use biotechnology to try to solve this problem!" But such expressions of good intentions would not be enough to allay his opponents' fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains Of Hope | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

Despite the efforts of the communist regime to allay these worries by presenting Hong Kong as a model of a thriving pseudo-democratic sanctuary within communist China, widespread distrust of the communist government exists in Taiwan. Thus the appeals made by communist leaders are in vain...

Author: By Tzu-huan Lo, | Title: A Changing Tide for Taiwan | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...strategy aimed at shoring up his image and conservative credentials while carpet-bombing McCain with attacks that portrayed the Arizonan as a hypocrite and a closet liberal. The first part of the plan would be carried out by Bush himself, who had a "wimp factor" to contend with. To allay post-New Hampshire doubts that he wasn't tough enough to go the distance, the Governor attacked McCain in a series of press conferences beginning just days after New Hampshire. Bush started out by calling McCain a Republican who took "Democrat" positions favored by "Bill Clinton and Al Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read My Knuckles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...believed to finance themselves via the drug trade; but human rights groups assert that neither side is entirely innocent of involvement in the narcotics industry. And the reports that the U.S.-backed military is cooperating with paramilitary groups that have killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening involvement in Colombia could eventually draw the U.S. into an intractable civil war (the ghost of Vietnam was invoked more than once in Thursday's congressional hearing on the aid package). But whether or not the Colombian military is using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the War on Drugs Become a Quagmire? | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...going to be all that painful. And Bush last week was pleased to hear that various New Hampshire tracking polls had McCain's lead drying up as the week wore on. The same polls made McCain seem understandably rattled at times, and his aides worked hard to allay his fears. On Friday, as the candidate got back on his bus after an impromptu stop near Exeter, strategist Mike Murphy told him he'd just spoken to a pollster. "He says it's in the bag," Murphy assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Giving McCain The Boot? | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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