Word: preservationism
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For those who feel guilty about lying on a Mediterranean beach, there are other things to do. The British travel firm of Eco Holidays, for example, is offering a trip to assist in woodland preservation in Romania. But John Button, author of The Green Guide to England, may have the...
How can a people so certain of their birthright be disoriented? More to the point, how can the French feel lost when France has emerged as the master builder of modern Europe? Not since the mid-19th century, when Baron Haussmann thrust his boulevards through rancid slums, has Paris experienced...
Given the muddled situation in Yugoslavia, it was not surprising that Western officials on both sides of the Atlantic were having trouble finding a comfortable political stance. When violence first erupted, the international community called for the preservation of "territorial integrity" warned separatists that a violent breakaway would receive neither...
Ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect are human disasters. They happen to occur in the environment. But they are urgent because they directly threaten man. A sane environmentalism, the only kind of environmentalism that will win universal public support, begins by unashamedly declaring that nature is here to serve man...
The order authorizes city officials to begin work on an administrative plan to raise money for an Affordable Housing Preservation Fund, which would finance the upkeep of rent-controlled housing. The plan would require eligible tenants to contribute between 2 and 5 percent of their incomes to the fund. Low...