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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most ambitious attempt so far to cut urban air pollution. Under the plan, businesses will be issued shares in the region's overall emissions, and together they must reduce smog-forming hydrocarbons by 5.8% a year, nitrogen oxides by 8% and sulfur dioxide by 8.5%. Companies that exceed the reductions can sell emission "credits" to other firms. The market covers 2,800 businesses that account for one-fourth of the pollution in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties...
...will probably meet, and may exceed that goal," Aceti said. "I think most people see recycling as a good idea and want to participate...
...have met our targets in most, but not allareas," says FAS Assistant Dean for AcademicPlanning Joseph J. McCarthy, who co-authored theFAS section of the plan. "While the FAS wouldcertainly like to meet and exceed the goal of fullutilization, it appears unlikely that we will, bynext year, meet all of our present targets...
...book by Gloria Steinem. Many critics dismissed Revolution from Within, Steinem's treatise on the political implications of the self-esteem movement, as an exercise in squishy new-age thumb-sucking. But as she tours shopping malls, Steinem is being mobbed by crowds that, according to one bookstore owner, exceed those of Oliver North and Vanna White, the backlash icons of American manhood and womanhood. Something must have happened in the climate of relations between men and women for these books to have such an impact...
...Clark's youth, glistening 27-kg (60-lb.) silver Chinooks and red-fleshed sockeyes would leap into the nets. The commercial salmon season was 137 days long, and a day's catch would often exceed a ton. But now the sockeyes have vanished and the silver Chinooks have dwindled. The season is one-third as long, and Clark and his two sons are lucky if they catch 136 kg (300 lbs.) each day. Soon they may have to quit the business altogether because of a broad effort to rebuild the salmon populations on the lower Columbia and its main tributary...