Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrongly focused on sexual freedom and self-expression, issues that they feel have antagonized the public. Instead, they say, the emphasis should be on civil rights and fairness, concerns that appeal to all Americans. AIDS, which has devastated the gay community, has helped shift the gay-rights agenda away from liberated sex to more mainstream values...
While the Penan are fighting the local loggers, the tribe's real antagonists are some 2,600 miles away, in Japan. Most of the trees cut in the Malaysian part of Borneo (the rest of the island is controlled by Indonesia and Brunei) are shipped to Japan, where the lumber is most often made into throwaway plywood construction forms used to mold concrete. Nor is the situation in Borneo unusual. Japan's heavy demand for wood has led to the deforestation of vast tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action...
That charge may be unfair, but it indicates the rising anger toward the Japanese. Until recently, environmentalists focused most of their attention on the U.S. and Western Europe, which are far and away the biggest polluters in the free world. But as Japan has developed into a leading economic power, its impact on the global environment has come under more intense scrutiny. While * Japan has begun to clean up domestic pollution problems, it has not shown the same regard for nature outside the home islands...
...believed to be interested in making a run for the Texas governorship, so his Japanese offensive may be calculated to play well back home. Koito, for its part, is launching its own publicity offensive, contending that if such eminent U.S. companies as Gulf Oil and Phillips Petroleum can turn away Pickens' bids, Koito can snub...
...gone so far as to meet a KGB officer or provide some information before his abrupt departure from the Soviet Union. Another possibility: Navy investigators leaned hard on Bracy to provide any evidence he had against Lonetree. Says Bracy: "If it was going to relieve the pressure, get me away from those guys, that's what I was going to do." Indeed, the statement Bracy signed declares that he merely helped his fellow Marine let the KGB into the embassy. Recalls a security officer: "Bracy thought he was a hero that day. It was all helping prosecute this Marine ((Lonetree...