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Since the organization's debut, Gorbachev and Wiederkehr have met with a parade of environmentalists to select pilot projects. Among the possibilities: a program to coordinate efforts to clean up the Volga River; an effort to protect the pristine Plitvicka Lakes National Park on the border between Serbia and Croatia from the fighting that has ravaged the Balkans; the establishment of a Geneva-based industry council that would help prevent chemical catastrophes like the gas leak that killed 2,000 in Bhopal, India; and an initiative to focus attention on problems that involve the use and disposal of toxic products...
...select few who monitor the University from the control center, Hawkes said "it takes a lot of patience." Many callers are calling because they have a problem they want fixed, and sometimes things get busy...
...mishap made clear once again the enormous price tag on space ventures. Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, noted bitterly that Congress had struggled to trim about $1.3 billion out of intelligence appropriations this year only to see almost that much blown away in the accident. Even before the explosion happened, CIA Director Jim Woolsey wanted $1 billion added to the $27.5 billion intelligence budget for 1994, but that will now be a tougher sell in Congress -- the extra money is earmarked for more space equipment...
...just tell you how I do it . . . In the history of this business, in one year, no one has ever been able to do what I do. I know 1% of the wealthiest people and the nicest people in the entire world, or maybe 1/ 2%. Every girl I select has some quality or value about her that I think is different from the rest...
...chance to buy shares in emerging companies just before they are offered to the general public. The revelation of Foley's sweet deals by Roll Call, a spry newspaper published twice a week that covers Capitol Hill, shed light on how some IPOs are doled out to a select few while ordinary folks are never given a chance to invest...