Word: lester
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...according to Lester C. Thurow, dean of MIT's Sloan School, and a vocal proponent of this type of educational reform, the principal opposition this time comes from the teachers themselves. Teachers reluctant to forego a long summer break are hiding behind an argument for quality instead of quantity, he says...
...gotten seven times as much new energy from savings as from all the net increases of energy supply," asserts Amory Lovins, director of research at Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo. "Efficiency is a clear winner in the market, leaving everything else in the dust." Declares Lester Brown, president of the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute: "We as a nation should be hell-bent for efficiency. The exciting thing about conservation is, we have a huge potential for savings with already existing technology...
...Theresa's chatty friend, Lucienne Lester has the misfortune of playing a completely superfluous character. Still, her comic energy and annoyingly fake southern accent liven up an otherwise dreary second act. The most skilled actor of the four, McDonald brings focus and commitment to her role. Although she quickly establishes the character of a tightly-coiled middle-age career woman, McDonald appears too late in the play. And her character's final confrontation with her daughter is so unconvincingly written as to be almost unwatchable...
...imperative of sacrifice remains. Lester C. Thurow's notion of a "zero-sum society" is instructive here. America faces long-term structural problems that cannot be solved without making people worse off in the short run. Unfortunately, the political climate of the last 25 years has encouraged us to resist this conclusion. Ever since Lyndon Johnson told us that we could have both guns and butter, voters have placed a high political premium on hiding the bad news, and politicians have invented ingenious methods of concealing...
...cold war was the paradigm of the old world order. The New Paradigm is what we are seeking. Communism and socialism are Old Paradigm. Big ideology is dead, and global environmentalism will come more and more alive. "In effect," says Lester R. Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute, "the battle to save the planet will replace the battle over ideology as the organizing theme of the new world order. The goal of the cold war was to get others to change their values and behavior. Winning the battle to save the planet depends on changing our own values and behavior...