Word: follows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change only their own life-styles, but their influence extends far beyond their homes, cars and offices. Americans can put their money where their ideals are by investing in companies that respect Mother Nature. Several mutual funds have been set up to buy shares only in corporations judged to follow the Valdez Principles, a set of guidelines for environmentally sound practices. Most important of all, Americans, like the citizens of all democracies, have the ultimate political power to enforce their will. If they are anxious to have a cleaner, safer, healthier environment for themselves and their children, they can vote...
Such precedents are not encouraging if the U.S. is to grapple with global warming, the climate change that might follow from overloading the atmosphere with gases like carbon dioxide. To date the Administration has been slow to react to the greenhouse threat because scientists are still debating how serious the problem is and because taking strong steps against it could cause severe economic dislocations. The U.N. is sponsoring a major study that could provide the basis for a coordinated international approach to global warming. American leadership is critical to this effort, just as it was to the Montreal Protocol...
...recalled in 1986 by Gorbachev, and swiftly took a leading role in urging the Soviet leader to follow through on Gorbachev's twin policies of perestroika, or restructuring, and glasnost, or openness...
...event, rapid implementation of a 100 percent randomization scheme without careful analysis is the worst possible route to follow...
Harvard's first basket--a Mitchell follow off a Scott Gilly jumper--and its last hoop--a Steve Bowsher layup off a fastbreak assist from Tarik Campbell--were noteworthy. But the Eagles dominated the interim...