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...when Clinton's "Climate Change Action Plan" finally debuted last week, environmentalists could muster only faint praise. Aimed at rolling back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, the document lists 50 initiatives, including incentives to spur use of public transit and expanded programs to promote energy efficiency. But there are two major omissions: the plan does nothing to raise auto-fuel-economy standards, and it contains no | energy-tax hikes to boost conservation...
...many times for comfort. The romantic subplot is weakly developed, tedious and extraneous. Interestingly, in Burton's book version of the film, Iushly illustrated by the author himself, the romance angle is completely excised. It is tragic that with every other aspect so fully realized, Burton could not muster up a solid storyline once...
...slow economic growth, heavy debt repayments, endemic poverty, proliferating crime and a growing drug culture. Tackling any one of these problems will require strong will and strong political support. No one doubts that Bhutto has the will, but no one is betting that she will be able to muster the second vital ingredient...
...Harvard took a whopping 31 shots on goal, while MIT could only muster...
...irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt that it arouses far less sympathy than a traffic accident fleetingly glimpsed...