Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The purpose of the conference is to "stimulate the United Nations and give students the environment in which they can learn," Glead S. Gordon '79, secretary general, said yesterday.
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano discovered as much when he took a shopping list of items he wanted to the President. Califano left, remarked a White House adviser, with an "empty basket." The Environmental Protection Agency put together a 100-page appeal for more money and cheekily sprinkled it with quotes from Carter campaign speeches calling for more spending on the environment. The President was not moved. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, asked for more funds to expand a program of subsidized housing for the poor. She too was turned down. Says top White House...
Most futurists, however, agree that a better life is in store for a stabilized population. Among those who believe in the beneficial effects is Demographer Westoff: "ZPG will reduce pressures on the environment and on resources. It will probably increase per capita income. It will reduce pressure on governmental services...
The departments in which TIME sorts out each week's news remain fairly constant, but when the need arises, we create a new one. In 1973, when the Arabs put an embargo on oil, TIME added a section called Energy, which monitored the fuel shortage, assessed its impact on...
(TIME cover, March 22). Says Vogue's editor in chief, Grace Mirabella: "It's a wonderful, energetic group of people who don't know about the history of manufacturing, so they just make things that are a part of reality today." Adds Bloomingdale's ready-to...