Word: grows
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Battle after battle Malard fights with this capricious force called Nature. Right now, it seems, he is losing more than he is winning, but he is a man of almost endless patience. Nature, he knows, will sooner or later grow weary of its tantrum. When it does, he will still be around...
...time of constant warnings that the U.S. is in decline, Japan, above all other nations, is conspicuously on the rise. "There's no reason that Japan won't continue to grow," says Yale History Professor Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. "Its economic drive is pushing it toward center stage." Most experts agree. "The American century is over," says Clyde Prestowitz, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration and author of Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead. "The big development in the latter part...
Global security requires more than missiles and warplanes: it also requires solvency and a sense of mission. Since World War II, Japan has enjoyed the protection of the U.S. and the freedom to grow at its own pace and in its own way. "It has really been very convenient and comfortable," says Paul Kennedy. "They like the idea of things being as they are." But Japan the protege is on the verge of becoming Japan the equal partner, and how Tokyo and Washington handle that relationship will affect the economic well-being and security of the world well into...
...Department of a "scorched-earth tactic that threatens to wipe out most plant life in the region for five years or more." Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency say Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike is not meant to be used on the moist, hilly terrain of the eastern Andes. Warns Edgardo Machado, a Peruvian coca researcher: "The rain will drag the herbicide into the soil at lower levels of the valley, where...
...Andes over the next 90 days and insist that no decision should be made until then. In a press conference last week, Ann Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics, asserted that the Upper Huallaga Valley "is not suitable for crops. Peasants moved into the valley to grow coca, period." She pointed out that the cocaine traffickers, who use the area to process the raw leaf into cocaine paste, have inflicted the most environmental damage. She cited a Peruvian study estimating that in 1986, traffickers dumped some 100 million liters of harmful chemicals into the area's rivers...