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...fight. Last fall, while candidate George Bush was proclaiming himself an environmentalist, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Miami sued the state of Florida for breaking its own laws by pumping pollutants onto federal lands. State officials, including Republican Governor Bob Martinez, were stunned. Florida's farmers, who harvest nearly half the cane sugar produced in the U.S. and contribute $2 billion a year to the state economy, cried foul. In the past month the battle intensified when the South Florida Water Management District, the main defendant in the suit, proposed a new pollution-control plan aimed at persuading U.S. Attorney...
...national park, the population of wading birds has dropped from more than 2.5 million in the 1930s to 250,000. Thirteen Everglades animals are now endangered species. Only about 30 Florida panthers remain, and in recent years several have been killed on roads cutting through the area. Half the original Everglades has been lost to development. Now the biggest threat comes not from bulldozers but in nutrient-laden runoff from sugarcane and vegetable farms that lie to the north, between the Everglades and its chief source of water, Lake Okeechobee...
They are also on average far younger than the East Germans who beat a path to West Germany's door in the past. According to polls conducted for the Ministry for Intra-German Relations, more than half of the refugees are under 30, and only 17% are over 40. Surveys showed that fully 86% have vocational or professional training, and an equal number held down professional jobs in East Germany. All of those polled owned television sets back home, almost two- thirds owned private cars, and 15% had weekend homes...
...dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep emerging; the example of others' failures seems only to add to the imagined glory...
Campeau has created a vicious cycle in his stores. After losing a combined total of $306 million during the first half of 1989, Allied and Federated face a cash crunch just when they must stock up for the holiday shopping season. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public last week, Allied said its "needs are far greater than its resources...