Word: eco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supermarkets, golf courses and offices to be vacated in the Canal Zone and U.S. military bases and known collectively as the "reverted areas." Though what was returned before 1994 is generally derelict, the government has elaborate plans for the rest, including the creation of export manufacturing zones, hotels and eco-tourism. A few contracts have been signed...
...billion dollars. So far, it is available only in California and Arizona, but New York, Massachusetts and other states are clamoring for electric vehicles too. Japanese and European automakers are launching their own futuristic prototypes. Can it be that a revolution in global transportation is finally at hand? Clean eco-cars that will save smoggy cities--indeed, the greenhouse-gassed planet--from the Malthusian explosion of internal-combustion engines...
WASHINGTON: Over the best advice of his aides, Al Gore is going to Kyoto. The global warming conference is not a place for politicians; with the business-friendly Senate brandishing a veto at his back, Gore will be wagering his eco-friendly credentials on a conference at which the U.S. is very much the villain...
Thus the linkage that Gore so slyly implies and then denies is "definite" is not only not definite, it is entirely, recklessly speculative. But very satisfying to his eco-apocalyptic politics. After all, if El Nino is the cause of a biblical plague of calamitous weather, and if global warming is the cause of El Nino, then you have a most beautiful link: human sin--burning carbon and, more generally, prideful exploitation of the planet for man's pleasure and greater glory--makes hail and floods and fire and brimstone fall upon us from heaven. Angry skies are no mere...
...Speed, yet in the sequel she can only squeal, hide and get kidnapped, while no-voltage Jason Patric attends to all the heavy heroics. In Batman & Robin the guest villains are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Thurman has sexy fun with her villainous eco-freak, but Arnold is encased in an icy truss of a costume that obscures his rippling charisma. Memo to the Batman team: next time you pay a star $25 million...