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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boost economic growth and raise living standards. One such policy, called an environmental tax shift, would move a portion of the tax base away from income, wages and profits and onto pollution and fossil-fuel consumption. Tax shifts greatly reduce the economic costs of emissions reductions because they use market mechanisms rather than regulation to drive changes in behavior, and they also provide a way to reduce taxes on income and profits. M. JEFF HAMOND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR Incentives Program Redefining Progress Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...contiguous chain of cross-border ecotourism parks and nature reserves linking protected areas from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. Known as the Open Africa Initiative and endorsed by former South African President Nelson Mandela, the project hopes to bring local communities directly into the global tourist market, but it's still largely a dream. The goal is for tourism income from the parks to be plowed back into community development. "What we're saying is that it's about time that Africa turned conservation into an industry for Africans," says De Villiers. "This is something with which Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Of The Wild | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...watchers had it all figured out. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly leaked that the rollicking days of a strong economy were over. He was going to put the brakes on the longest peacetime advance with a series of rapid-fire interest-rate hikes that would send the stock market into a tizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Getting Fed Up | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...they were football coaches and the Federal Reserve an NFL team. For weeks, it seems, the nation was on "Fed watch," as commentator after commentator opined on the Fed's desire to cool things down. (For the record, this talking head told you to take a vacation from the market this week so you would not have to think about Greenspan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Getting Fed Up | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...might have been turned from an investor to a trader, spooking out of high-quality stocks because you feared a Fed action that in another era wouldn't have meant a hill of beans to you. Some of these know-it-alls had you believing that the stock market was the Fed's enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm Getting Fed Up | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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