Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right. Phase in a 50 cents tax over five years, and you raise $50 billion a year. But it's voluntary, because, to avoid that tax, one need only drive more efficiently -- moving, five years from now, to a car that gets 28 m.p.g. instead of 20. (Not to mention taking the train, tuning the engine, or even choosing to live closer to work.) Side benefits: less pollution and a lower trade deficit...
...Review, which has had four top editors in five years, did not mention Harris last Thursday when announcing the appointment of Kurtzman, currently Sunday editor of the Times business section. It wasn't until a full day later that the journal acknowledged Harris's demotion to "consulting editor," a title that is "corporatese for being fired," according to The Journal...
...fact, Matthiessen has hewed to the same harsh, uncompromising path: nearly all his books are set in a primitive, half- mythical landscape where men are alone with nature and a lost spark of divinity. You will not find much contemporary in the books, and there is scarcely a mention of domestic relationships, or cities, or Europe. Nearly all of them simply trace the dialogue of light and dark. "One reason I like boats so much," he explains, "is that you have to pare everything down to the bare necessities, and there you are, the captain of a little boat, without...
While the auto companies do penance for past overindulgence, few analysts believe the bigger firms have much to worry about in the long run. When the dust clears, they will still own some of the most modern and flexible production plants in the world, not to mention much of the best automotive technology. "The Japanese carmakers have serious problems but also impressive strengths," says Harley Shaiken, a professor of technology at the University of California at San Diego. "They are still going to be major innovators. One of their strongest attributes has been the ability to rebound...
...example. Abandoning the elderly in their wheelchairs. Intergenerational downward mobility. But these are not the kind of things one would want to see spread around the world like Hula Hoops, stamped MADE IN THE U.S.A. The same goes for the cannibalism trend as promoted by Anthony Hopkins, not to mention Studs-like game shows, in which attractive young people make witty remarks about body parts...