Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road to that society is clear-cut, straight and narrow: tear down the liberal welfare state, cut taxes, cut government spending, reduce entitlements, balance the budget, sign the Contract with America, dump Clinton and his liberal friends, give power to the states. Privatize, debureaucratize, downsize! And if America fails to heed his call? "The consequences will be incalculable," he writes. "The underclass of poverty and violence will continue to grow. Our economy will gradually fall farther and farther behind those of our best competitors. Our vision will blur and our civilization continue to lose its focus...
...panelists also said they were concerned Clinton's one year deadline would dump the peace-keeping responsibility on European nations after the U.S. pull...
...cleaning up their own toxic waste. Usually, Republican philosophy is to make the public pay for the externalities and vices of the private sector, but the current budget-cutting fever in Washington has led to even more perverse policy. Since the government's funding of toxic dump cleanups would also be severely reduced, many dumps would not be cleaned...
...number of visitors has swelled from 1,000 in the early 1960s, after the Darwin Research Station opened, to more than 50,000 last year. Many of the off-islanders are ecotourists who are respectful of environmental laws, but some of the tour operators are not. Ship crews dump garbage and sewage directly into the sea, says Alfredo Carrasco, secretary-general of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Isles. "Tourists used to come here out of a pure interest in nature," he laments. "Now the tour operators are promoting recreation instead...
...moment equate capital crimes with romantic misdemeanors. Still, there's something icky in Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fiftysomething guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. This is the plot of Allen's 1992 Husbands and Wives, of his brutally funny playlet in the off-Broadway Death Defying Acts, and of his exasperating, finally engaging new film, Mighty Aphrodite...