Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political genius of Bush's something-for-everybody plan is that it meets environmentalists' objectives by giving industry unprecedented freedom to choose how to cut emissions. On acid rain, it calls for a reduction by the year 2000 of 10 million tons, or 50%, in the amount of sulfur dioxide spewed into the air, mostly by coal-burning electric utilities. Says an Administration official: "Ten million was clearly a litmus test with the 'enviros...
...power plants can achieve the reduction any way they want. They can install scrubbers on smokestacks, switch to burning low-sulfur coal or adopt new technology for cleaner burning of high-sulfur coal. Moreover, they can trade what would amount to pollution rights. If one utility cuts sulfur- dioxide emissions more than the law requires, it can sell the unused portion of the emissions it is allowed to another company that is having trouble meeting its standard. While the total reduction would be the same, both companies would cut costs: the seller because it would get extra money...
...funds that appear to be missing. "There's much work to do here, and I enjoy it," says Kemp. "President Bush has charged me with the responsibility to reform the agency from stem to stern, and that's what I intend to do." He has his task cut...
...drifted through Europe last week on a cloud of warm reverie and adoration. He collected a knighthood from the British (only the 58th American to do so), and was inducted into the French % Institute's Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (only the sixth U.S. President to make the cut...
...fuss, SDI seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...