Word: backyarders
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...ANWR: This is the centerpeice, and at least Murkowski's no NIMBY-pamby - the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is as close to his backyard as anyone's, and he, like Bush, is convinced that its black bounty, anywhere from 3.2 billion to 16 billion barrels of extractable oil, is well worth what advocates say will be minimal environmental damage. Says Murkowski: "The reality of ANWR is that if you are looking to increase supply, you look at where you are mostly likely to find...
...right now, as the game of high-stakes international politics is being played out in their backyard, the people of Iraq care little for Hussein, the United Nations, weapons inspections or any other abstract ideal that is being upheld by starving them. Worrying about high politics is a luxury of the well-fed. What the people of Iraq want is an end to their suffering. They have paid the price for living under a ruler they neither chose nor support...
...Take NMD. Deep in their hearts, Europeans know they should buy some insurance against missile attacks. But right now, they are more afraid of the political fallout. They don't want a riled Russian bear in their backyard. Nor do they want a strategic arms race in the Far East, triggered by Chinese efforts to build a nuclear arsenal capable of penetrating America's shield-in-the-sky. Worse, Moscow and Beijing may link arms against the U.S., and there goes the global neighborhood. So, Mr. President, you may want to recalculate the gargantuan bill of NMD by adding...
...systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds - political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when it does, the new strip will take four years to complete. Memphis international airport needed 10 years to get its new runway approved and an additional...
Rupert, who built a corporate giant from a backyard cigarette factory, has been a crusader in enlightened business practices. His company led the way in establishing pay and fringe-benefits standards for black workers during the apartheid years. Now, with the ambitious conservation project roaring to life, he has earned a new kind of title: Anton Rupert, bio-diplomat...