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...Cities] study was to provide air quality standards in the U.S.," said Dockery. "It was started in the mid-'70s, when it was felt that there would be a major change in the way electricity was generated," he said. This change was anticipated after OPEC launched an oil, embargo. The shortage of oil, many thought, would force U.S. power plants to switch to the use of coal for electricity generation...
...voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...
Students from the School of Public Health (SPH) will also examine the impact of the embargo and the war on the health of Iraqi civilians, by examining the effect of destroyed power plants and contaminated water supplies, group members said...
...factors were multiple: a decade-long civil war, a complete politicization of the economy under Sandinista rule and a U.S. economic embargo all contributed to the situation as it existed before the February 1990 triumph of Chamorro's National Opposition Union...
Acceptance of the terms is the only way Iraq can bring the worldwide trade embargo to an end. Once the cease-fire is approved, U.N. observers would move in to monitor a demilitarized zone on both sides of the Iraq-Kuwait border; after they are in place, Washington will feel free to bring home the rest of its soldiers. That may not do much to make the Middle East less of a breeding ground for war or to bring democracy to Iraq. But the U.S. and its allies at least will have fought off a threat to world oil supplies...