Word: environmental
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The Democrats need to take a stand. But only if they incorporate issues such as the environment, tax reform, economic security, and gun control into a coherent vision can they hope to recapture the affections of the voters. Trying to form a coalition of special-interest groups can no longer...
Students who pay a large tuition to attend Harvard College may be expected to find an environment free from the contamination of faculty rancor and vicious intra-university politics. A good university should be temporary Arcadia and respite before one meets the ravening hypocrisy of American society at large.
A big role was doubtless played by rumors that created an explosive trading environment, like a roomful of ether waiting for a spark. One story, quickly squelched, was that Ronald Reagan had suffered a heart attack. Most of the other rumors involved speculation about renewed inflation and higher interest rates...
In more general terms, CBS has faced the same challenge that pressures the entire $8.2 billion broadcast-television industry. Threatened as never before by competition from cable, videocassettes and independent television stations, network TV operates in an environment of shrinking audiences, weakening advertising revenues, and predatory outsiders who see profit...
The fossil forest should also fuel some important scientific research. "You can see a prehistoric forest in a growth condition: how dense it was, how the trees grew, how productive it was," Basinger says. "It gives us a much better idea of the plants populating the high latitudes (at that...