Word: rios
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However limited its accomplishments, last month's Earth Summit in Rio signified the participants' acceptance of what Maurice Strong, the main impresario of the event, called "the transcending sovereignty of nature": since the by-products of industrial civilization cross borders, so must the authority to deal with them...
Brundtland traveled to Harvard's Commencement straight from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil where she gave the keynote address. When her selection as speaker was announced in April, Harvard Alumni Association Executive Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 called Brundtland a "catalyst, a mover on environmental issues...
Probably with this in mind, he took a courageous stance in Rio by defending American economic interests against an international consensus. Yet he was quickly mocked at home as the "spoilsport" in Rio, the undiplomatic one who selfishly focused on his own country's needs while the rest of the world was sharing and playing nicely...
Bush's objections to certain aspects of the Rio treaties were all based on his decision to give America's economic problems priority, a choice that many of his current detractors recently clamored for him to make...
...political needs or principles are compatible. Sometimes, as at the Rio summit, one has to be compromised for the sake of the other. But it appears that whichever Bush chooses, attention is focused only on the compromise, not on the principle he was trying to defend. Even if the kind of leadership we want is nothing but "leading the people where they want to go," we make this impossible by wanting, on principle, to go in the opposite direction whenever someone tries to lead...