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...problem now was treatment of toxic waste. The pollution caused by floating logs down the rivers that empty into the lake kills the spawn of most fish, including the Baikal omul, which a century ago rivaled beef as a source of food for all Russia. The accidental discharge of effluents, deforestation and fire also threatened the fragile ecological balance of the region. We proposed that the lakeshores be closed to new industry and existing enterprises be moved...
...reduce the role of the Kombinate, Pieroth aims to spawn a healthy Mittelstand, the sector of small and medium-size businesses that is the backbone of West Germany's economy. There is a great need for such firms in the East, which suffers a dearth of everything from corner restaurants to car dealerships. In the past two months, some 40,000 East Germans have applied for a share of the $3.5 billion that Bonn will make available to them over the next three years for loans to start small enterprises...
...dress, speech and emotions is readily connected to human relationships. The problem with the casual sex so fashionable in films is not that it arouses lust but that it deadens feelings and annihilates privacy. The danger is not that sexual exploitation will create sex fiends but that it may spawn eunuchs. People who have the habit of seeing everything and doing anything run the risk of feeling nothing...
...student, however, refused to give up, taking the analogy to new depths. She said law students try to spread the word about public interest law, in an attempt to "spawn" new public service lawyers...
Unlike hurricanes, which can be detected as they spawn and tracked until they expire, earthquakes give no timely warning. This one's subterranean birth pangs had persisted for decades, attended only by seismologists helplessly unable to pinpoint when calamity would strike. When its punch was finally delivered, it was measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale, a force not recorded in the U.S. since the 9.2 quake that shook Alaska...