Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Volrad Wolny, a waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like to banish the misleading symbol altogether...
...George Bush -- to endorse the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a meeting with small- business owners, Clinton promised flexibility on some important elements of his health plan, especially on proposals that might harm small businesses. Earlier, House and Senate Republicans unveiled their own plan, which would not compel employers to cover workers and, they promised, would not require new taxes or insurance-premium caps...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
...evaluations are not mandatory and it is difficult to see how they ever could be. It may be possible to compel a student to fill out a questionnaire, but it is extremely difficult to insure that he or she does so intelligently, thoughtfully and fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side...
...system produces lustrous mini-campuses in the most fortunate suburbs, scuffed and gloomy warehouses in the ghettos and maximum insecurity almost everywhere. Poorer districts are so desperate that 41 states have faced lawsuits challenging the statewide school finance formula, all with the goal of getting courts to compel legislatures to adopt a more equitable sharing of tax revenues. Under court pressure, Kentucky has developed a package of taxes to help fund education. In May Texas voters will be asked to approve a redistribution of property taxes...