Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that has been the focus of protests for years. And in Maine voters moved closer to imposing controls on clear-cutting in a state where timber interests own almost half the land...
...close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract for 15 years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement timber prices. With Alaska's delegation occupying key positions on congressional committees, it looked as though KPC would get its way, and Murkowski would protect the state's jobs. Said he: "If the pulp operation goes, all logging in southeast Alaska will collapse as well...
When it became clear that other Republicans, already bruised by the backlash to the perceived antienvironmental bias of their party, were unwilling to help him, Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition...
...Forests, big timber companies could clear-cut no more than 1% of their land each year, and the maximum allowable clear-cut would shrink from 250 to 75 acres. More important in the long run, they would abide by voluntary standards to preserve sustainable levels of tree harvesting, and protect soil, water and biodiversity. The compact also would create a compliance system managed by independent auditors...
...crosscurrents reflect a particularly stormy period in America's love affair with charge cards. With more than 1.1 billion pieces of plastic already crowding consumers' wallets (the typical user carries six or seven different cards), the 7,000 banks and companies that issue all this credit are struggling to protect their profits and gain whatever edge they can. For some this has meant flashy new offerings like the $100,000 (as in credit line) Platinum Plus card that M.B.N.A. America Bank of Wilmington, Delaware, launched earlier this year. (Just tell that Rolls-Royce dealer to put it on the card...