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...America's trade balance and reduce our vulnerability to supply constraints and oil price shocks. Also, U.S. industries that produce efficient and clean technologies to meet climate policy goals would be poised to capture a large share of the rapidly growing world markets for these technologies. And cutting fossil fuel use would reduce air pollutants, thereby improving public health and reducing damage to crops, forests, buildings and water resources...

Author: By Gabrielle B. Dreyfus and Maggie Y. Loo, S | Title: Take It To The Hague | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...their carbon gas outputs to a level 5 percent below the 1990 figures. And for a booming U.S. economy whose output levels continue to increase every year, that would mean an economically burdensome 20-30 percent reduction in coal-fired electricity, gasoline consumption and other burning of fossil fuel. Europe is far ahead of the U.S. on the road to reducing its carbon gas outputs, but mostly through taxes on gasoline that push the pump price up past $4 a gallon - a scenario almost unthinkable for any U.S. politician contemplating reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Saving the Planet May Be Too Politically Costly | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...million, the 2000 presidential election looked as if it might be decided by one-five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he may not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning of another. "The American people have now spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reversal of Fortune | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

PLAN: Reserve roughly 10% of the surplus--$480 billion--for tax cuts targeted to low- and middle-income Americans. These include credits for college tuition, preschool, care for an elderly parent, fuel-efficient cars and retirement-savings accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: TIME Issues Briefing: The Four Big Differences | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

PLAN: Reserve roughly 10 percent of the surplus - $480 billion - for tax cuts targeted to low- and middle-income Americans. These include credits for college tuition, preschool, care for an elderly parent, fuel-efficient cars and retirement-savings accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where They Stand: Your Printable Guide | 11/5/2000 | See Source »

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