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Companies that refuse to clean up their acts could be forced to do so, either by increased government regulation or public pressure. In September an alliance of environmental groups, bankers and investment-fund managers, known as the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, unveiled a set of guidelines for corporate conduct called the Valdez Principles (a name taken from the Exxon Valdez, the tanker responsible for the Alaskan oil spill). Firms that agree to the guidelines must pledge, among other things, to conserve energy, reduce waste and market environmentally safe products...
...Since Webster," she said to a group of suburban supporters at a fund raiser recently, "we now must fight this battle in 50 states." Cold fire stirs in her voice. "If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect. It's a temptation to grow weary with all the battles still to be fought. But it's also an opportunity to show the finest...
...political climate turned hostile to abortion rights during the Reagan years, she became more outraged and outspoken. Under Wattleton, Planned Parenthood took off the white gloves and became one of the nation's most vocal and aggressive advocates of abortion rights. The organization will soon launch a political action fund headed by Wattleton that will allow it to endorse political candidates. Today the public image of Planned Parenthood is Faye Wattleton...
Quiet defiance. Like father, like daughter. Self-possessed, imperturbable, smoothly articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back of a white limousine cruising along Route 20 toward Chicago. Arredondo reached for Wattleton's note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic...
Maher said GSAS, which historically has hadfinancial difficulties, "will be grateful foranything we can get," but estimated that it wouldneed $30 to $35 million to fund a sufficientnumber of fellowships...