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While this frenzy of rangeland transformation has made money for some, for others it has raised the specter of an environmental calamity. Explains Steve Meyer, executive vice president of the Montana association of conservation districts: "When you remove the vegetation on rangelands, you're depleting a resource. If steps aren't taken, we face the possibility of another Dust Bowl...
...Within two years, Jobs predicted, more computers than automobiles will go on the market. "They should be well designed," he said. "But well designed or not, they will sell anyway." To some of his listeners, this indicated that Apple considers design dispensable gift wrapping. It also raised the specter of technology and engineering moving ahead of design instead of following from it, with the result that the style of buildings, computers and graphics would merely reflect expediency. As Design Writer Ralph Caplan put it, "Designers today are caught between market research and their creative instincts. The trouble...
Some attorneys, however, are skeptical about the benefits. Says Lawyer Howard Specter of Pittsburgh: "A suspect may be overwhelmed by the videotape equipment. The potential for taking advantage seems strong." Defense Attorney William Murphy of Chicago says, "Let's face it. Some confessions are elicited not by beating but by trickery...
...years before that, the Aztecs had built their own civilization near the ruins of an earlier, forgotten people. To this day, Mexicans are haunted by the ever present fear of still another apocalypse, and there is enough bad news in their economy at present to keep the specter alive...
...seemed to enter his own contest last week, when he told foreign finance ministers meeting in Paris that the U.S. was sensitive to the problems its high interest rates created for other nations (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Said Regan: "I do guarantee we will make visible progress in removing the specter which arose from the January budget: record deficits as far as the eye could see." Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, also made the connection, saying that the prime cause of high interest rates is the borrowing requirements of the U.S. Government. This is likely...