Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still a little farfetched, perhaps, but it sounds better that way, doesn...
...state inquiry impinges on press freedom and is politically awkward: registry-board members are appointed by the Governor. A better idea would be to shame media and "experts" into ending the practice. Says George Annas, professor of medical ethics at Boston University: "The board shouldn't regulate this. It calls for self-restraint on the part of journalists and professionals, and that is very hard...
...sprucing up comes not a moment too soon. The resorts have been losing business to the cruise lines, which account for some 60% of the traffic to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tourists with limited time or money to spend are choosing ships over land-based resorts as a better value. "The cruise business is just killing the island resorts," says Jim Cammisa, a Miami-based travel consultant. "Like it or not, Americans are not adventurous travelers. The ; cruise offers clean accommodations, good food and consistency...
...Boys," as he calls Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke and other architects of efficiency. And the Boys' great sin? To have created an atmosphere that allows scientists to impose untested new technologies on society without considering their broader implications. Says Rifkin: "Faster is not necessarily better...
...field of public policy, no one is better than Rifkin in the martial arts of social activism: lawsuits, petitions, debates, lectures and media manipulations. Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products...