Word: pacificism
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With wildfire season starting, concerns are mounting in the Western states that fire fighters could be overmatched. Last July alone, 40,000 acres were destroyed from eastern San Diego County to Yosemite National Park. This summer, experts say, the destruction could be even worse, with the Pacific Northwest suffering its...
TOOK OFFICE. VINCENT CHENG, 56, the first ethnic Chinese Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia-Pacific arm of HSBC Group, the world's second-largest bank by assets and a symbol of British colonial power; after being named to the position last December; in Hong Kong...
When Chevron, one of the world's oil giants, announced in early April that it was buying Unocal, a smaller rival, for about $17 billion, it seemed like business as usual in the oil patch: the big getting bigger by swallowing the not quite so big. Across the Pacific, though...
Just last month another Equator Principles member, Credit Suisse First Boston, found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project that environmentalists say threatens the endangered western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring...
Cook’s flaming temper didn’t improve the situation. The captain took a possessive attitude toward the rank farm animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook?...