Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tropical-forest destruction has become an urgent international issue because, as scientists point out, if the trees go, millions of different animal and plant species will become extinct, and the information encoded in their genes will be lost forever. Moreover, deforestation can lead to local disruptions of rainfall patterns and possibly even global climate changes because there would be fewer trees to absorb carbon dioxide from...
Environmentalists fear that the same thing will happen in Sarawak and Sabah, which contain some of the oldest rain forests on earth. Chin estimates that careless, wholesale cutting will denude the remaining forests of their commercial timber within as little as seven years. Local officials have given loggers access to an estimated 95% of Sarawak's forests that are outside existing or proposed parks and protected areas. Even those tracts are coveted by corrupt politicians. According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected...
...abroad, the road has provided ammunition for those who argue that increased foreign aid by the Japanese will only further jeopardize the global environment. Kiyoshi Kato, director of JICA's Institute for International Cooperation, admits that his agency has learned a lesson from the Limbang road: "We must survey local opinion more thoroughly before starting future projects...
...most acrimonious of these had begun in the early 1980s with a push by the FBI to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. The State Department had resisted the bureau's initiative on the ground that the Soviets would retaliate by cutting the number of local Soviet employees allowed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. That led to bitter disputes about the espionage threat posed by these local employees and about other security issues. By 1985 low- level warfare had broken out between Ambassador Hartman and security officials in Washington. "There was bad blood; there...
...among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie on every block and corner of this country...