Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...
Skirmishing over the clean-air proposals was inevitable. From the start, it was clear that the White House's plan for cutting urban smog and toxic pollutants was far more lenient toward industry than was Bush's widely praised proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged...
Despite their misgivings, the environmentalists concede that in some respects the President's plan has been improved. Perhaps anticipating an outcry from the left, Bush's aides added unexpected new restrictions on coal- fired power plants that would require utilities to cap acid-rain-causing emissions after the year 2000. Such provisions help explain why industry largely withheld its endorsement last week. As an Administration official said, "If we're taking fire from both sides, it tells you something about where we are on the political spectrum...
Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski told Bush the speech "contained many thoughts permeated with realism." But Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski said his nation was not looking for "a rain of gold...
Faced with accusations that its aggressive trade policies threaten rain forests, the oceans and a host of endangered species, the superpower has launched a series of initiatives. But the country is handicapped by a shortage of conservation activists and experts. Do its actions signal a heightened environmental awareness or merely skillful public relations...