Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, Reagan signed the 14th annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality, paying tribute to an agency that his Administration had tried to cut from the budget. In a speech before some 20,000 members of the National Campers and Hikers Association, Reagan...
President Reagan, who has been working hard to spruce up his tattered image with environmentalists, planned to have a peaceable luncheon last week with leaders of five of the nation's major conservation groups. But instead of a fence-mending meeting, the President got a showering of Third of...
In Colorado, the most recent state to start a lottery, 40% of the take is allotted to a conservation trust fund. In Massachusetts, a share of the profits from the state's high stakes Megabucks game is designated for the arts. Explains P.G.R.I. President Duane Burke: "If the choice...
THIS EMPHASIS on huge-and, increasingly, unreasonably expensive--power plants, whether nuclear or coal-fired, relegates other sources of power, such as conservation and the use of renewable resources, to the back burner. Under the DOE plan, conservation measures get last priority. Meanwhile, however, an experiment going on now at...
So MOMA had to expand. It also had to find a different financial base. Both these matters, when embodied in a plan that was made public in 1976, caused some livery controversy. To get more money, the museum came up with the idea of a 44-story tower of luxury...