Word: buildups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Environmentalists staged Earth Day to dramatize a simple message: The planet is threatened by a host of man-made ills, from toxic landfills to ozone depletion. But at least one part of the message -- the theory that the buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause global warming -- has come under considerable attack. A small but vocal group of scientists contends that the case for warming is sketchy and based on inadequate computer models...
...epochal changes in Europe during the past six months are all the more dramatic for defense contractors because the shift comes on the heels of the Reagan era's $2.4 trillion defense buildup, the largest peacetime military expansion in American history. Deficit pressures forced reductions in federal spending as early as 1985, when U.S. defense outlays began to grow more slowly than inflation. Military suppliers started to feel the pinch of tighter budgets, but the reductions of the past few years have been mere potholes in contrast to the yawning craters that lie ahead...
...those with glaucoma, the drainage canals are somehow blocked, leading to an increase in pressure. "Glaucoma is a plumbing problem," says H. Dunbar Hoskins of the San Francisco-based Foundation for Glaucoma Research. If left untreated, the pressure eventually harms the optic nerve. The reason for the buildup is not known...
Instead of making hard choices, it is easier to blow off steam. April 22 will offer people an opportunity to purge accumulated anxiety over wounds to earth's life-support systems. Worn out by weeks of buildup and an accompanying media blitz, many people will return to business as usual on Monday, hoping not to hear the E word again for weeks. It is possible that the environment might be better served if consumers had no such outlet, and were forced to do some quiet soul searching about how their individual choices contribute to the world's environmental problems...
...buyouts, was a prime contributor to today's bankruptcy boom. Other improbable rescuers include First Boston, which advised Campeau to borrow more than $10 billion to buy Bloomingdale's, Jordan Marsh and seven other U.S. store chains. Some critics attack Wall Street firms for profiting from both the debt buildup of the '80s and the subsequent spate of failures. "There ought to be something unethical about cashing in on the way up and on the way down," says novelist Michael Thomas (Hanover Place), a former investment banker. "It's like a doctor who builds a trade infecting people and then...