Word: importations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PROPOSED earlier this month, the $24 billion aid package for Russia--including an $11 billion contribution from the U.S.--is a step in the right direction. It will provide import credits, humanitarian aid, International Monetary Fund and World Bank loans, debt rescheduling and ruble stabilization...
...make matters worse, the worst drought in a century has hit southern Africa this year--famine threatens to engulf the entire region. Normally a big exporter of food, South Africa will have to import four million tons of corn this year, or about two-thirds of its consumption...
...DOLL'S HOUSE (PBS, March 29, 9 p.m. on most stations). Ibsen's war-horse gets a powerful, unpatronizing new production in this Masterpiece Theater import. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) perfectly calibrates Nora's progress from docile wife to proto-feminist, and Trevor Eve avoids easy caricature as her husband Torvald. Superb...
...Americans can live with any of these options. The main lesson we should take from our neighbor's troubles is not to import them here. Multiculturalism and bilingualism, once planted, grow like kudzu. Our struggles over our racist problem have lasted 200 years and included a Civil War. Let's not add problems that have made even Canada interesting...
...been quick to recognize a different, political truism: the fact that many Democratic voters abhor nuclear power. His speeches these days downplay nuclear's role in achieving energy independence, but on paper Tsongas notes that America's 112 nuclear plants produced the energy to cut the U.S. oil-import bill by $4.7 billion in 1989. On the basis of these figures, substituting nuclear power completely for oil imports would require more than 1,000 new nuclear plants. Even that estimate is low, since Tsongas calls for building 300-MW-to-500-MW plants rather than the current...