Word: scares
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This presents the new Administration with a golden opportunity to change the tenor of the environmental debate. Clinton and Gore should take a page from Ross Perot's scare tactics on the deficit and use this fear. Sad to say, it is only when people become truly frightened (or angry) that the government has some hope of breaking the cycle of enacting feel-good laws that do little to halt environmental decline...
Though the spill was not so awful as had been feared, it did create a costly scare. Nearly 400 sq. mi. of fishing grounds, including 11 of the Shetlands' 61 salmon farms, have been closed until both the water and the fish can be tested for oil contamination. "We think things look good now," says Alistair Goodlad, co-owner of Bressay Salmon Co. "But we can't take a chance. We will voluntarily stay closed until we know things are safe." Experts are also testing sheep to discover the effect of their grazing on oil-tainted pastures...
Dutchmen Recap: Harvard had a minor scare of its own Friday with a 3-2 defeat of lowly Union...
...celebration was held at Revolution Books, a place with a curious history. The JFK Street store has had a dubious arson and a bomb scare in the last few years, and it recently did a very rare thing for businesses--publicly displaying posters which, rather than encouraging purchases of their merchandise, actually asked for donations...
...Harry E. Figgie Jr. believes. Figgie is the author, along with University of Arizona economics professor Gerald J. Swanson, of a slim best seller titled Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It (Little, Brown; $19.95). If you want a really good holiday-season scare, be sure to pick up this half-baked Figgie pudding of doomsday scenarios and vague nostrums. The tone is set in the first two startling sentences of the introduction: "In 1995," Figgie writes, "the United States of America, as we know it today, will cease to exist. That year, the country...