Word: globally
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...replace a Vice President, so I expect we could replace a President." Argued Bill Moyers, a presidential press secretary under Lyndon Johnson: "The American people in the last ten years have become accustomed to the disposability of their officials." Although lessening, the general fear of impeachment and its global impact remains a protective force for the President...
...ecological disaster, none have sounded more persuasive-or alarming-than those put forth last year under the banner of the prestigious Club of Rome. Based on computer projections of the present rate of population and industrial growth, a team of scientists at M.I.T. forecast massive economic collapse and global epidemics by the end of the 21st century. Last month another computer specialist sharply disputed that gloomy outlook. Writing in the British publication Nature, he reported that the computer programs used by the M.I.T. group contain a simple but highly significant "typographical error" that drastically alters their doomsday projections...
Different World. In his book, Meadows, leader of the M.I.T. team, wrote that even when the most optimistic assumptions were made about the availability of mineral resources, agricultural production, cheap energy, effectiveness of population control, etc., the computer yielded the same results. It pointed to a global crisis marked by great famines, depletion of natural resources and disastrous pollution of the seas and atmosphere. Only drastic restrictions on all types of economic growth could avert the calamity, he insisted...
...with the projections in the book-a good indication, he feels, that the program he used was the same as the one on which the book was based. Beyond this, Boyle shares the view of many computer experts that so many factors are involved in mathematical modeling on a global scale that even the best computer programs are still far too crude to make really accurate predictions...
According to the new global geological theory known as plate tectonics, part of the Pacific Ocean floor is pressing slowly in the direction of Japan. This movement creates enormous pressure and heat deep in the earth, some of which is eventually released in the form of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...