Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another technological approach would not prevent bombings, but it could help identify those who commit them. Explosives can be chemically "tagged" so that telltale traces can be used to determine their origin after a blast. If producer nations could agree on a tagging system for military explosives, it would increase the chance that future terrorists might be tracked down and brought to justice...
...Only Late Night with David Letterman, with its hip, self-parodying pose, has succeeded in cutting a new path. Letterman's influence will be evident in both shows: each, for example, plans to take the camera outside the studio occasionally. But mostly the newcomers are following the old-fashioned approach: a band, a couch and an easygoing, plain-folks appeal. Not since the heyday of Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas have talk shows been so user friendly...
...this approach sacrifices America's long term economic wellbeing and ignores the human cost of a lower dollar...
...heavy-handed message. In the realm of docudramas, the best lack all conviction: last spring's Baby M was a gem precisely because it had no overt agenda other than to convey the clash between two impassioned, tragically irreconcilable points of view. Karen Carpenter takes the more familiar didactic approach. Message No. 1: losing weight has its limits (or, you can be too thin). Message No. 2: such an illness can often be traced to the failings of Mom and Dad. A psychiatrist who has examined Karen chides the senior Carpenters for making her feel inadequate and hiding their love...
...consumer level, one option is to charge households a garbage-collection fee according to the amount of refuse they produce. Manufacturers too need more prodding. Higher fines, taxes and stricter enforcement might force offending industries to curb waste. Industry must also re-examine its production processes. Such an approach already has a successful track record. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. has cut waste generation in half by using fewer toxic chemicals, separating out wastes that can be reused and substituting alternative raw materials for hazardous substances. 3M's savings last year: an astonishing $420 million. In the Netherlands, Duphar...