Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the lead in cutting back--a position the President himself took seriously. In the end, Clinton split the difference. Chief U.S. negotiator Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, arrived in Kyoto with a proposal to cut emissions back to 1990 levels, no lower, between...
That, says the White House, broke a logjam. Suddenly the contest was no longer a battle of wills between the U.S. and the E.U. "By going a bit lower," says a U.S. official, "we became fully in sync with the Japanese." And with Japan and the U.S. united, and Russia and other nations signing on as well, the E.U. now faced a bloc that included most of the developed world...
With Britain behind it, the deal was nearly set: the E.U. would cut emissions their 8%, the Japanese 6% and the U.S. a nominal 7%. (Administration officials insist that the most realistic accounting scheme makes the actual cutbacks lower; what's called 7% in Kyoto, they say, is really 3% at most.) After Gore twisted Hashimoto's arm, those were the numbers that stuck. Exhausted negotiators took an additional 10 hours to iron out the details--as Japanese workers hovered impatiently, waiting to set up for a trade show at Kyoto's International Conference Hall--but the American negotiating team...
...women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.) Meanwhile, last week, Talitha Renee Garrick, 27, a Columbia woman who said she smoked crack cocaine a little more...
...even lower down. Wheat and flour have been cleared for irradiation since 1963, and over the years spices, pork, fruits and vegetables and poultry have been added to the FDA list. Yet despite the overwhelming endorsement of many health authorities, including the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization--and despite the FDA's renewed assurances last week that radiation at its recommended dosages affects neither a food's taste nor its nutritional value in any detectable way--irradiated poultry, vegetables and fruits are almost as rare as Iranian caviar in U.S. markets. Though NASA has long irradiated food...