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...conference also approved a landmark special fund that would provide $240 million over the next three years to help poorer countries switch to chemicals that are more expensive but less harmful than CFCs for use as refrigerants, solvents and propellants in spray cans. The fund, proposed long before the London meeting, had been a major sticking point until a few weeks ago, chiefly because the Bush Administration had declined to support it. Consequently, such populous developing nations as India and China continued to refuse to sign the Montreal Protocol. Bush finally reversed himself, under withering criticism from inside and outside...
...record as blaming the bureaucracy for the misery of workers' lives, food shortages, infant mortality and pollution. Conservatives have been attracted by his strong personality and persuasive public speaking. The Front claims that Gorbachev is dividing the society into rich and poor and that the workers are getting poorer. But the Front has not been successful in elections so far, and to redress the balance, it demands a fixed percentage of parliamentary seats for workers...
...late Mongol scourge. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's highly conservative Prime Minister, is hard to humanize. Still, when Britain needed to be put to bed without its supper after decades of infantile class warfare, she did the job. Now unemployment is high, and education and health care are poorer. But Britain's economy and pride have perked up, and the middle class is prospering...
Phillips brings the authority of statistics and history to his argument: with an elegant weaving of charts and cultural observations, he paints a picture of the Reagan decade as America's third period of "heyday capitalism," when the poor got poorer, the middle class had to get rich in order to retain a middle-class life-style, and being rich had to be redefined to account for the tripling in the number of multimillionaires...
...alecky mujahedin boy who in the battle zone of Afghanistan grew closer to his comrades than to his father. In Henry's insular world, his homies are his only family. It is his enemies who keep changing. Despite designer sneakers and all the food he needs, Henry is far poorer than Akbar. He has no cause, no purpose to his fighting, no dream of redemption in another life...