Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The travel-agency business has grown heavily dependent on reservation systems and the airlines that own them, often at the expense of carriers without their own computers. Nearly 87% of all flights are now booked through the carriers with computerized networks, compared with 61% in 1983. The most dominant system...
The Helsinki accord calls on industrialized countries to create a U.N. fund that would help the developing world adapt to life without CFCs, which are used, among other things, as refrigerator coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam. Just how this would be done was not specified. Still, Norway...
Now that nations have agreed on a timetable for meeting the ozone threat, environmentalists hope that governments will turn their attention to more intractable ecological problems. At the Helsinki conference, West Germany's Environment Minister Klaus Topfer declared that the next urgent task is to put limits on the emission...
Then there are the tourists. "The pyramids," laments Hawass, "are the only monuments in the world where you can drive up and park your car. Even in Disneyland you have to park a mile away." Last year alone 1,969,493 visitors came to look at -- and touch and breathe...
The committee--which includes health experts at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the state--was appointed last month after the principal of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) collapsed with a brain tumor. Although spokesperson Albert Giroux said the tumor was probably not related to the school...