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With ecological concerns emerging as a substantial factor and forcing a structural change with regards to multinational environmental decision making, clearly the end of ad-hoc incremental environmental policy making is in sight. Trade promotion, though, is not incompatible with environment-enhancing activities. Incorporating both issues should not be an impossible task. We must, however, be cautious about using environmental regulations as non-tariff barriers...
While old-style terrorism (narrowly defined as politically motivated violence involving the citizens or territory of more than one country) has decreased since the 1970s, homegrown, ad hoc and, especially, ethnically or religiously inspired violence has increased. For example, terrorism and organized crime are blurring, especially in such places as Italy and Colombia. Using a much broader definition of terrorism -- which counts violence committed inside a country by its own citizens -- Pinkerton Risk Assessment Services concludes that terrorist attacks worldwide increased to a record 5,404 in 1992, up 11% from 1991, and the number of people killed rose above...
...fact, it sometimes seems as though there are more standing committees, ad hoc committees and subcommittees than students, So perhaps having a standing committee that deals with visiting committees--as the University does--is not so surprising...
Like Harvard, the visiting committee system is very old, very large and very complex. The number of committees, which date back at least 100 years, has risen to 57, and many have their own ad-hoc subcommittees. There are also five standing committees to which the visiting committees report...
Other graduates focused their activism at Harvard on changing the University. Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor, was in the student government and served as the first chair of an ad hoc committee of Black students formed in response to the King assassination which took steps to establish Afro-American studies...