Word: preservationism
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This tradition of democratic environmentalism has been well served under Bill Clinton's presidency. The emergence of the Environmental Justice movement in the early 1990s, which arose because of disturbingly disproportionate pollution in areas inhabited by those at a political or economic disadvantage, prompted Clinton to sign an executive order...
Bush, however, threatens to cast aside all of these measures as well as many of the important environmental laws promulgated by (Republican) President Richard M. Nixon's administration. First, he has asked his lawyers to look for every opportunity to reverse Clinton's executive orders on land preservation. Second, one...
But bringing the building--which is protected as a historic structure--up to code proved challenging for University architects. For example, FAS could not install an elevator that would reach all floors of the building because it would have meant substantially changing the exterior of the building, which violates historic...
Faust announced the creation of a Mary Maples Dunn Fund for the Preservation of Schlesinger Library. Faust said the Institute had over $150,000 already to maintain, preserve and digitize the library's holdings, starting with the women's rights collection.
Loyalty and trust in a democracy is a tricky thing. The Bush family, it is said, has always placed a premium on loyalty, as though they were a royal dynasty that valued its own preservation and power above all else. This puts them in a similar league with the Kennedys...