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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silently sit back and let Washington take away abortion rights. And the states, to whom the Supreme Court is passing the ball, must be told that the debate over choice is a national, constitutional issue and that they should not only protect choice but also provide funding for poorer women seeking abortions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March for Choice | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...supply of rent-controlled apartments in Cambridge has remained relatively stable since then. Rent control has protected an economically diverse community from the ominous specter of gentrification. Without rent control, apartments would be rented and sold to the highest bidder, and poorer city residents would be forced to leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Say No to 1-2-3 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...said 1-2-3, which would weaken rent control by allowing some tenants in rent-controlled apartments to buy their homes, would drive poorer tenants out of the city by giving landlords an incentive to rent only to the wealthy...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Brooks House Rejects 1-2-3 In 1st Political Endorsement | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...concern limited to the First World. A treaty signed in Basel, Switzerland, in March limits what poorer nations call toxic terrorism -- use of their lands by richer countries as dumping grounds for industrial waste. And on Sept. 7 more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening of Geopolitics: A New Item On the Agenda | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying arms. Surely at least some of the $200 billion a year that poorer countries lavish on their military establishments could be better spent on saving the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening of Geopolitics: A New Item On the Agenda | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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