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...teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow and alter the trend...
Budget-strained state and local authorities are also becoming disenchanted with the salary escalator ride. In November, the Chicago Transit Authority sought to alter a contract provision that guaranteed its bus drivers virtually complete wage protection against inflation. The drivers struck for four days, but went back to work under a court order. They were finally forced to accept a new COLA agreement that raised salaries by only 55% of the inflation rate...
...teenager, Borg was pressured by a succession of well-meaning coaches to alter his game. One exception was Lennart Bergelin, appointed Sweden's Davis Cup captain in 1970 and charged with dis covering and developing young players...
...Italian government cut its Olympic squad by nearly half after the nation's Olympic committee ignored the government's boycott recommendation and voted to go. The mechanism: it banned police and soldiers from Moscow competition and refused to alter exam schedules for student-athletes, who must now decide whether a trip to Moscow is worth losing a year's credit at their universities...
Dubos's ideas will not appeal to those hard-line environmentalists who regard man as an interloper and a destroyer of the planet. The author, noting that all animals alter their environments, brilliantly marshals his evidence for an intelligent balance. He may not convince those whose idea of nature is the replica of the Matterhorn at Disneyland or those who see themselves as noble savages. But his words should be welcome to the great majority of people who live somewhere in between...