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...hopelessly mired in anthropocentrism, but I find McKibben's argument a bit elitist. The people who would suffer most by a general cutback in technology are those who don't have a house in the mountains. Citizens of underdeveloped countries and America's own poor depend on technolgy as a means of providing food, as a gateway to better lives. Who is to be sacrificed so that the wealthy of today and tommorow can enjoy gardens...
...proposed three-year contract that the machinists rejected offered pay raises of 4% in the first year and 3% in each of the next two, bonus payments of 8% the first year and 3% the second, improved health benefits and a 20% cutback in mandatory overtime. Boeing considered the offer "generous," said spokesman Russell Young. But union official Jack Daniels of District 751 in Seattle dismissed it as "peanuts," pointing to Boeing's profit of $614 million in 1988 and $356 million in the first half of this year...
Twice, as vice president, Bush blocked legislation to destroy U. S. chemical weapons by breaking a tie vote. In those instances, the cutback would not have required Soviet reductions as well...
...troop cutback would pose few military risks. In fact, in their latest offer in Vienna, the Soviets came close to accepting Western proposals for reducing their tanks and other conventional weapons. If those negotiations lead to an agreement on conventional arms, the way would be open to East-West talks on the most divisive issue within the Western alliance: the reduction of short-range nuclear missiles...
...representative also argued his case on national security grounds, saying that the Navy could not afford a cutback in its submarine production...