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...state of the earth's ozone layer, President Bush declared last week that the U.S. will halt production of ozone-destroying chemicals by the end of 1995. That's four years sooner than an international treaty dictates, but not as fast as environmentalists would like. "It's a modest improvement but by no means aggressive," says Liz Cook of Friends of the Earth in Washington...
...firm's proxy statement that calls for a vote on an executive's compensation package. Corporate boards were formerly permitted to block such a referendum. Though the results of the vote will not be binding on management, shareholder sentiment could pressure executives to settle for something more modest...
...President and Casey embarked on the opposite path: "What they had to do was let the natural forces already in place play this out and not get their fingerprints on it," explains an analyst. What emerges from the Reagan- Casey collaboration is a carefully calibrated operation whose scope was modest compared with other CIA activities. "If Casey were around now, he'd be having some smiles," observes one of his reluctant admirers. "In 1991 Reagan and Casey got the reordering of the world that they wanted...
Sununu visited the store after the signs went up Saturday, and was pleasant but modest, he said...
This is spoken not to her husband but to Ron Strickland, a documentary filmmaker who had been hired by Hylan's company, in a typically dopey corporate move, to record the millionaire at sea, and who has now inherited Owen Browne as a subject instead. Strickland's modest fame rests on his ability to make people look ridiculous onscreen, and he is, by and large, willing to jettison Hylan and try out his technique on the photogenic and seemingly unassailable Brownes. Looking at some still photographs of the couple, Strickland's assistant remarks that Owen and Anne "don't resemble...