Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite dire predictions, the experience of the states that have enacted them shows clearly that bottle bills work. Oregon, though it never has had a serious litter problem, is now virtually free of beverage litter. Vermont highway officials reckon that roadside container rubbish has been cut down by 76%. Litter has been reduced by 90% in Michigan's heavily used state parks, according to officials. But in some of its industrial areas the cleanup has cost hundreds of lost jobs in bottle factories and millions in lost tax revenues from bottle sales...
...last weekend in Louisville, complain that states have historically been insensitive to the needs of urban areas and the disadvantaged. Says Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier: "Our city has only 16% of the state's population, but we have 30% of the poverty. The state will not reckon with this when it distributes the funds." Civil rights, education and social service leaders are also wary of entrusting the purse strings to statehouses, and more than 60 citizens and religious groups have formed a coalition to oppose the President's plan. Says Marian Wright Edelman of the Children...
...committee rejects Lefever, the nomination could still be brought before the full Senate for a vote. But the Administration may well reckon the political costs of such an unorthodox move-and the inevitable, even more acrimonious public battle that would ensue-as not worth the effort. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington
...call him a "Janus, who has two faces: one the anti-Giscard candidate, the other turned against François Mitterrand." Pundits insist that Marchais actually has a carefully masked preference for the re-election of the conservative Giscard over the leftist Mitterrand. His main reason, they reckon: the fear that a Socialist victory would severely undercut the influence of the smaller Communist Party and relegate it to a helpless neither-government-nor-opposition ambiguity...
...their surrogates, there is no reason why the U.S. should be hindered in helping to supply the guerrilla groups in Afghanistan and the non-Communist resistance to the Vietnamese-backed regime in Cambodia. Soviet planners, poring over their maps in search of targets of opportunity, should have to reckon with the likelihood that the MiGs they have supplied to some would-be invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes...