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...measures by the Japanese government, but because it refuses to promote national savings and encourage investment. Instead of blaming Japan for our inability to compete abroad or accusing our European allies of being responsible for our deficits, the United States should realize that it cannot continue to pursue such reckless, consumption-oriented fiscal policies in the years to come and that it must reinvest in job training, education, and research to restore America's competitive edge...
...polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles up and down New York's Long Island in search of the perfect combination of light, air and sea for a photograph. The result -- Wrapped Globe 1988 -- is a fitting symbol of earth's vulnerability to man's reckless ways...
...Jackal and almost everything written by Ian Fleming. The boy's doomed mother Maria is not merely an eyeful, she has a "passion for beautiful things and more than enough money to indulge it . . . Coco Chanel suits, tea roses, the best restaurants, jazz, and driving her Bugatti at a reckless speed...
This wondrous globe has endured for some 4.5 billion years, but its future is clouded by man' s reckless ways: overpopulation, pollution, waste of resources and wanton destruction of natural habitats. TIME analyzes the looming ecological crisis and provides an agenda for urgent action...
...long voyage of the Pelicano is a stark symbol of the environmental exploitation of poor countries by the rich. It also represents the single most irresponsible and reckless way to get rid of the growing mountains of refuse, much of it poisonous, that now bloat the world's landfills. Indiscriminate dumping of any kind -- in a New Jersey swamp, on a Haitian beach or in the Indian Ocean -- simply shifts potentially hazardous waste from one place to another. The practice only underscores the enormity of what has become an urgent global dilemma: how to reduce the gargantuan waste by-products...