Word: montreal
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...English- speaking businesses and helped boost the unemployment rate to 18%. Today Quebec is at peace not only with Ottawa but with itself as well. Many parts of the province are already enjoying newfound prosperity; elsewhere, at least the beginnings of a recovery have taken hold. "Quebec," says the Montreal daily Le Devoir, "has entered a whole...
Last week the world, or at least a part of it, finally did something. At a conference in Montreal sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program, 24 countries signed a milestone accord that promised to halve production and use of ozone-destroying chemicals by 1999. "There has never been an agreement like this on a global scale," exulted Winfried Lang of Austria, chairman of the conference. Said Lee Thomas, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: "The signing shows an unprecedented degree of cooperation among nations of the world in balancing economic development and environmental protection...
...Montreal Protocol is aimed at reducing CFCs, which are used as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners and are an important ingredient in aerosols and plastic foams. The pact would limit the use of an ozone- destroying group of fire-suppressant chemicals called halons, which some scientists believe cause as much as 20 times the damage of CFCs. Scientists estimate that overall as much as 7% of the ozone belt, which stretches six to 30 miles above the earth, has already been destroyed. Moreover, researchers have found evidence of "holes" in the shield, including one above Antarctica that approaches...
...Montreal negotiations, which capped nearly five years of talks, lasted nine days and involved some 150 scientists, environmentalists and industry representatives. The protocol allows developing countries to increase CFC use for ten years, in the interest of making more available to them items like refrigerators. It permits the Soviet Union, which plans its economy in five- year cycles, to go ahead with production scheduled through 1990. Thus the amount of the chemicals produced worldwide will actually grow by as much as 15% in the coming decade, cutting the real decrease by 1999 to just...
...shunning the world's most popular game ended up costing the Americans in everything else? If so, only one thing could be more ironic. A Toronto- Montreal World Series...