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...chemical-plant workers and fishermen -- whose impatience with their fouled neighborhoods has forced cities and states to become legislative trendsetters and pass laws far stricter than the Federal Government's. "The environmental movement of the '60s was relatively elite and focused on national lawmaking," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt. "Today the power is being regenerated through the grass roots. Just as the civil rights movement began at the neighborhood lunch counter, this new environmental movement is beginning at the neighborhood pond...
SOME especially courageous politicians, such as former presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt, have suggested applying a "means test" to Social Security benefits. It's a good idea, but it isn't enough. Social Security's inefficient system of distributing benefits is not its worst flaw...
Most of the leading candidates--a list rumored to include former Connecticut Sen. Lowell P. Weicker and former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt--have come to the school in recent months as fellows or visiting scholars to meet with students and faculty, according to Lecturer in Public Policy Hale Champion, the search committee head...
...visit to Harvard as a Heffernan Fellow last week, Weicker met privately with Champion and the IOP's Student Advisory Committee (SAC). Champion declined to comment about his meeting with Weicker, but said that he has also met with several other visitors to the school, including Babbitt...
...Babbitt, also a recent Heffernan Fellow, said he is not interested in the director's post, according to SAC Visiting Fellows Chair Loryn D. Dunn...