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...fall of the Iron Curtain could spur a cleanup. West Europeans lead the world in environmental consciousness because they have suffered egregious homegrown pollution as well as grime floating in from the east. Expenditures on environmental protection in Western Europe have increased from $46 billion in 1987 to $73 billion this year, and are expected to rise 75% more by the year 2000. Additional funds and technology will undoubtedly go to help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment...
Last week's report promises to change all that. It could spur the development of an effective test that would distinguish between those children who need drugs or other therapies and those who do not. More important, a better understanding of the physical roots of hyperactivity could lead to improved treatments that might relieve children of their metabolic problem -- without giving large numbers of them powerful drugs...
...shock presents U.S. political and economic leaders with agonizing choices. To spur the slumping economy, the Federal Reserve Board would normally loosen credit and allow interest rates to fall. But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has been reluctant to do that because of the inflationary pressure of rising oil prices, which helped push the consumer price index to an annual rate of nearly 10% in August. Greenspan has suggested that interest rates would be allowed to fall if the Administration and Congress can reach a credible deficit-cutting agreement, which would reduce the pressure of government borrowing on the credit markets...
...resolution authorizing the use of force, however, is something the ) U.S. is exploring, though for the moment not pushing. It would further turn up the heat on Saddam and might spur him either to withdraw from Kuwait or to launch a pre-emptive strike that would justify an allied counterattack. But dovish allies want other options pursued first. In addition, the U.S. and its allies would need ironclad assurances that China would not veto the resolution in the Security Council, and they have yet to begin seriously exploring conditions for Beijing's approval. The U.S. is counting on other...
Galvin, who leads in the Globe poll, proposes using state investments to spur banks to help more with economic development. He also says he would publish the state's financial performance monthly and enhance lottery proceeds to cities and towns...