Word: farness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...far, the facts seem stacked against Bush. But he has not had his day in public, and his command process is more secretive than that of any recent President. We know that young Panamanian officers responded to U.S. pressure to rid their country of Manuel Noriega, that we were aware of the plot, involved to some undetermined degree and that a few yards away were some of the 12,000 trained and armed American troops stationed in Panama. Does opportunity ever knock so hard...
...will push this country into getting universal health insurance," says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. "Or we may be reduced to narrow-minded scrambling to see who gets what piece of the pie." However, the current budget crisis, plus resistance to socialized medicine, makes that prospect a far-off solution. In the short run, a combination of public- and private- sector responsibility, translated into cash, seems to offer the best hope for coping with this ongoing human crisis...
...spiral of bloodletting, which began in November, escalated last week, when landowners raided a mining camp, killing four people and setting houses ablaze. An angry mob from the settlement retaliated by slaughtering a Bougainvillean woman and her baby and torching her home. So far 39 have died in the dispute...
Over the years, California has given the rest of the country everything from health food to a taxpayers' revolt. Now it has bequeathed another far-reaching legacy to its sister states: a clampdown on auto-emission standards that could help transform the American car and the fuel that makes it run. To the discomfort of U.S. automakers, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously last week to adopt California's strict limits for the 1990s as the law of the land. The measure, which seemed certain to win House approval, would cut existing levels of tail-pipe pollutants...
...far, most oil companies have seemed more eager to denounce the alternative fuels than to develop new products. Mobil has run ads attacking methanol as polluting, expensive and more dangerous than gasoline if accidentally swallowed. Although the fuel produces far fewer smog ingredients than gasoline, it releases more formaldehyde, a suspected cause of cancer. Cars would get less mileage from methanol because it burns faster than gasoline. Yet Indianapolis 500 racers have used methanol for years because it boosts horsepower and is less flammable in accidents; U.S. automakers have developed experimental cars that run on both methanol and gasoline...