Word: subs
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...Reich's Enigma code. Flouting all rules of the sea but honoring every war-epic cliche about guts under pressure, Lieut. Matthew McConaughey and his team give a demonstration of old-fashioned mechanical virtuosity--of people doing difficult things well, including things they never thought they could. The sub is really a time machine: this brisk, not-quite-plausible thriller returns us to a time when men were men and movies were shorter...
...notify the two Presidential candidates, while they are still campaigning, that a fundamental redefinition of environmental issues and the rearmament of environmental stakeholders looms large on the horizon of national consciousness. The roots of the new environmentalism can be found in the recognition, at the national level, of sub-populations that are particularly vulnerable or susceptible to the impacts of environmental deterioration. Vulnerable groups, including the poorest of the poor, suffer from various combinations of natural geographical factors, insensitive zoning laws and/or uncouth sociopolitical maneuvers that increase their exposure to detrimental environmental factors...
...world's poor, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa are the most heavily indebted, owing some $200 billion, equivalent to roughly three times the value of their annual exports. Across a region where per capita GNP is barely $300, external debt per capita clocks in at more than $360. Although their citizens are ravaged by AIDS, African governments spend roughly four times as much on interest payments as on health care. Says Njehu: "Make no mistake, the people hardest hit by austerity programs adopted because of debt problems are the poor--the same people who benefited least from the original...
This bill, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, would give sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the U.S. textile market, a self-help strategy that should prove much more successful than the current foreign aid policy of loaning money or forgiving debts. Although the bill should be welcomed with some reservations, the Clinton administration was still correct in its decision to sacrifice the World Bank proposal in order to ensure the bill's passage. While the more modest African Growth and Opportunity Act actually has a good chance of being enacted, the World Bank proposal is not only...
...conditions were difficult for our team because we're used to sailing in the flat waters of the Charles River." Carroll said. "In, the 'light and lumpy' conditions, a couple of our sailors got a little green around the gills and we had to sub them out for a few races...