Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June, but only after the U.S. watered down the proposed global-warming convention that is to be signed there. And he approved his Interior Department's plan to override the Endangered Species Act to permit logging in ancient forests on some federal tracts that are home to the rare northern spotted owl. Bush still intends to campaign as the Environment President, one aide said, but "he understands that owls don't vote, and loggers...
Congressmen are fleeing Washington. Many career Capitol Hill aides are also depressed and planning to quit. Look for soft real estate values in northern Virginia...
...BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE NO SECRET of its antipathy toward the Endangered Species Act and its most celebrated case, the northern spotted owl. Environmentalists have used the owl as a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest; loggers claim that protecting it costs them 32,000 jobs. Last week the rare birds trembled, after the Cabinet-level committee known as the God Squad voted to override the act and allow timber sales on 1,700 acres...
VISITORS TO MOSCOW this summer need not worry about finding their way around. From Northern Cartographic in Burlington, Vt., comes this user-friendly tourist map that identifies all rechristened streets and landmarks. It even , directs homesick junk foodies to McDonald's. Where did such meticulous accuracy come from? From "redrawn" CIA maps...
...winter, the sun heats the greenhouse air which then flows up a vent at the top of the greenhouse, through the attic, and down a space in the northern wall. A blanket of heat envelopes the whole house...