Word: schwartzman
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...rise above 25%, spontaneous fires would break out; if they dropped below 15%, many higher life-forms would suffocate. Climatologist Tyler Volk of New York University argues that life controls earth's temperature as well. In a study recently published in the British journal Nature, he and colleague David Schwartzman asserted that, without the cooling effects of living things, earth would be 80 degrees F warmer...
Mendes became a hero to environmentalists not only because he fought and died to stop deforestation but also because of the way of life he was defending. The rubber tappers are living proof that poor Brazilians can profit from the forest without destroying it. According to Stephan Schwartzman of the Environmental Defense Fund, seringueiros achieve a higher standard of living by harvesting the forest's bounty than do farmers who cut the forest and plant crops...
...wake of Murdoch's latest move, some media analysts warn of a potential conflict-of-interest problem: TV Guide, after all, will be reviewing Fox Television shows. "TV Guide is the dominant medium for program promotion," argues Andrew Jay Schwartzman, executive director of the Media Access Project, a Washington-based public-interest law firm. "The potential for abuse is considerable...
Meanwhile, Jewish refusenik spokesman David Schwartzman said an undetermined number of people were detained on their way to a demonstration planned today outside the Foreign Ministry, where authorities broke up a protest Sunday by people demanding open Jewish emigration...
...they contend has the doctrine had the chilling effect that some claim. Between 1984 and 1986, the FCC received 19,565 fairness complaints. But it pursued only 18 of them with the station involved, and ruled that there was a violation in just one case. Andrew Schwartzman, executive director of the Washington-based Media Access Project, points out that the fairness doctrine does not require "equal time," only that "reasonable" coverage be given to different views. "It is an incentive to do more, not less," he says...