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...supported a rival. He spent lavishly on houses, cars and military operations, sending thousands of troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998 for a costly anti-rebel campaign. In 2000 he encouraged the seizure of land from white farmers--a move which, combined with a drought, caused drastic food shortages. Meanwhile, Mugabe painted himself as Africa's champion, calling Western nations "neocolonialists" striving to "keep us as slaves in our own country." Even as the U.N. condemned the political violence and the U.K. revoked his knighthood, Mugabe remained aloof. "He's not unaware of the fact that Zimbabwe...
...more, Crist believes that "just the mere discussion of more domestic oil production" is making a difference. "Look at the effect it's already having," he says, "in the sense that Saudi Arabia is saying they want to produce more barrels a day" to lower prices and curtail any drastic drop in U.S. demand...
...interpret this silence as a guarantee of gay rights could provoke the populace to remove the ambiguity: November’s state elections could see a referendum on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, by opening a new battlefront on the constitution, the court has provoked such drastic kinds of move that could set back progress on the issue by decades...
Others say the neighborhood's low-income residents won't be uprooted. "A lot of people living in Harlem are protected from very drastic increases in housing prices," says Lance Freeman, a Columbia University professor whose studies have shown that the level of displacement prompted by gentrification is often exaggerated. Still, Freeman says, "if the rezoning has the effect that the city planners intend, no doubt it will significantly alter the neighborhood...
Back in the 1970s, Hayden's argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...