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Greer winds up her arguments--in a chapter tellingly titled "The Myth of Overpopulation"--with some pretty potent conclusions. We in the West, she charges, assume that there is overpopulation in the world because most people cannot achieve our standard of living. The Malthusian argument that population will eventually outstrip resources is valid, but Greer claims that this has not yet occurred. With an uncharacteristic humbleness. She writes...
...have participated. About 90 percent of the participants have said they were satisfied, and most participants are well-informed about Israeli life even before arriving. The slice of seems to be both realistic and reassuring to them. The personal and emotional benefits for the volunteers seem to far outstrip the costs. If you're an American who wants to help Israel, and you don't mind getting a little dirty, this just might be the best way yet to "pitch...
Over the last five years, Property Capital Trust has earned its backers a 35.4 percent annual compounded return; measured since 1974, the figure is still an admirable 19.2 percent. Such returns far outstrip the 10 to 12 percent Harvard could expect to receive from the most attractive bonds, and, excepting the recent take off, dwarf all stock market indices...
...Post's reaction underscored the dilemma of the Avis of wire services: U.P.I, cannot outstrip the dominant A.P. except by showing enterprise on stories; yet when it does, clients chafe that its ambitions may lead to carelessness with facts. Post Foreign Editor Karen DeYoung said that "it made no difference" that the assertive report came from U.P.I, rather than A.P. Still, quite a few news executives share the judgment of William Greer, associate news editor of the Miami Herald: "U.P.I, has had a reputation for shooting from the hip." Adds Greer: "They have done a good job the past...
...provide an abundant source of cheap energy, the power system began building its first three nuclear plants between 1972 and 1975. In 1976, the Bonneville Power Administration, a U.S. Government agency that sells electricity from federal dams to Northwestern utilities, warned that power demand was still likely to outstrip supply in the '80s. With that encouragement Whoops went ahead with...