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...federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they use the term, you can hear the federal budget shrinking. Arriving in Chicago from the fireline near Fresno, California, where he spent a week helping fight the flames in the Sierra foothills, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt reflected on how a second Clinton Administration will approach the art of thinking small. On healthcare, the Administration takes credit for triggering the "reform" that was carried out by large profit-making managed care firms that bought up doctors and hospitals across the country and cut prices. On environmental issues, instead...
...When the department had 160 students, it was the third largest department at Harvard," says Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Chinese Stephen Owen. "Now it strikes me as about right...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Was it the wise protecting the wise? Asked to overturn Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's decision to protect the northern spotted owl, the Supreme Court denied the case without comment. At issue was whether some 6.8 million acres of federal lands in Oregon, Washington, and California could be classified as "critical habitat" by Secretary Babbitt under the Endangered Species Act without first filing environmental impact statements required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior...
...films in 1992, succeeds beautifully at providing a comic look at the dreams and harsh realities of one arregant man after be graduates from a French university and returns to Burundi confident be can become a cabinet minister. Gito (Joseph Kumbels) reminds one of Tom Cruise's arrogant Charlie Babbitt in "Rain...
...walrus--at Mollie Beattie, the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is among the most powerful of a group of environmentally unfriendly lawmakers from Western states. As chairman of the House Resources Committee, he has decisive say over a controversial rewrite--or gutting, as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has put it--of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Last week Young and his allies rolled over Democrats and even a few moderate Republicans on the committee to move a step closer to a less expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions, it would eliminate...