Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Look for the entire report of TIME's Board of Economists in the October 4 magazine...
...group of powerful business and educational leaders, has called on Congress to pass the Shays-Meehan bill. The response was a threatening letter by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Tenn.), the GOP's anti-reform attack dog in the Senate, recommending that the CED's members publicly disclaim the report...
...Hurricane Floyd turns more than 2 million Americans into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part...
...Even though President Clinton endorsed the broad themes of the report in a speech in New Zealand Wednesday, he knows as well as anyone that the U.S. is the worst offender ? and that American democracy often cripples the nation?s ability to respond to environmental challenges. "Few politicians are going to spend an election year warning voters that they?re going to have to cut back on their consumption of gasoline," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Even the limited cutbacks ? when measured against the scale of the crisis ? in greenhouse gas emissions envisaged in the landmark Kyoto accord signed...
...mentally ill end up in the prison system or fending for themselves. Any other way leads to a legal morass. Zdanowicz says, "You can't force someone into an institution unless a whole bunch of criteria are met." The situation is so dire that if family or friends report that an EDP is becoming violent, most mental-health workers will say, "Call the police...