Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity has already sent a team of experts specializing in book conservation to the Leningrad library which will report to the Library of Congress, Olmsted said.
Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams was the surprise winner of the 1986 American Book Award for nonfiction. This collection of short pieces about the American Southwest, Alaska, endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures is in the same vein. Much of the ground covered is by now well trodden, though Lopez has...
Increase the gasoline tax. Boosting the levy by 20 cents, to 29 cents per | gal., would encourage energy conservation. It would raise $18 billion, of which $2 billion could be rebated to low-income households in income-tax credits. One alternative, imposing an oil-import fee, would be less preferable...
American law specifies two actions that the President can take. He can ban Japanese fishing vessels from U.S. waters, but that would merely be symbolic, since, for conservation reasons, the Japanese do not currently have American fishing rights. An alternative would be to restrict imports of Japanese fish products, which...
In fairness to Simon and Hart, there is another revenue producer in both of their deficit plans: oil-import fees. This is, in effect, a hidden tax; it raises gasoline prices at the pump without being directly visible to consumers. That is part of the reason that support for duties...