Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The crusade has encountered resistance and stirred resentment. Emil Salim, Indonesia's Minister of Environment, asks how Americans can berate tropical nations for deforestation when U.S. trade barriers discourage development of small industries that might provide an alternative source of exports.
...press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
...waste. And on Sept. 7 more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would offer $2.25 billion to tackle pollution in the Third World...
Other masters say they feel the same way about the need to preserve student choices in selecting the environment in which they will spend three-fourths of their time at Harvard.
"My older children missed Newton, where every house had children, and there was a park, and they could always go out and kick a ball around with a group of friends," says Jana Kiely. She says she found it difficult to move from a neighborly suburban environment to an area...