Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
...effect of special programs for women has been demonstrated in Bangladesh. In 1975 the government launched a project in which associations of rural village women were provided with start-up loans for launching small businesses, such as making pottery, raising poultry and running grocery stores. About 123,000 women are currently enrolled in the cooperative. At weekly meetings, health-care and contraceptive information are distributed among members. An extraordinary 75% of the co-op members of childbearing age use contraceptives, while nationwide only 35% of married women practice birth control...
...remained buried in the rubble, many of the doctors, rescue squads, fire fighters and dog handlers who had converged on the ravaged cities of Leninakan and Spitak from around the globe began to head home last week. Ryzhkov, who spent 13 days in the area as head of a special Politburo commission supervising the relief efforts, offered a grim tally before he returned to Moscow. The number of dead, he reported, was certain to exceed 55,000. Relief workers had rescued 15,300, while 514,000 had been left homeless by the quake. The cost of rebuilding Armenia: much higher...
...putting out their garbage, they religiously follow such requirements as separating bottles from cans and burnables like paper from nonburnables such as glass and hard plastic. People who want quick disposal of old refrigerators or TV sets need only make a phone call to the sanitation department for a special pickup. Observes Yumimaru Nakada, a senior official in Tokyo's public sanitation bureau: "Living in a crowded situation, the Japanese have come to learn that garbage recycling is no laughing matter...
Gorbachev, whose background is in agriculture, has shown a special concern for the environment from the beginning of his reign. Early on, he toured the country and took care to detour from the carefully prepared showcase routes to inspect firsthand the polluted rivers and devastated forests. Funds for environmental protection, about $24 billion this year, are projected to reach $46.4 billion annually in the first half of the 1990s. At the same time, Gorbachev's regime has cracked down on polluters. Around Lake Baikal, about two dozen violations of ecological standards have been referred to prosecutors. In Nizhni Tagil...