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While we should not necessarily sub ordinate environmental concerns to economic issues, ecological issues should not be an impediment to this important agreement. Any environmental impact statement filed before the treaty is signed is necessarily speculative. If the administration's appeal is unsuccessful, then the impact statement most be done with utmost speed...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Rocks in NAFTA's Road are Green | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

...guitars chomp and snarl or dissolve into wavering pools of reverb. In Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car, a self-mockingly pompous classical overture gives way to a jittery, high-octane beat, frayed guitar riffs and ominously echoing pings that sound like sonar from a distressed nuclear sub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Shock From Ireland | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

Another clinical fellow was also skeptical of any plans that would centralize certain departments in certain hospitals. "The sub-specialties have a long tradition at all the Harvard hospitals," he said. "No one's going to give them up without a fight...

Author: By Joe Mathews and Ira E. Stoll, S | Title: Affiliate Hospitals Confirm Talks On Cooperation | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

...didn't have nostalgia, but I went through some of the trauma that the spooks had definitely been through. Was there nothing there? Maybe it was all a waste of life. Maybe I should have just been running a boy's club. I had this weird kind of sub-life in some part of my head, where I sort of kept up with events from a spy's-eye view. I was never a very good spook; I was definitely a writer who took up spying rather than a spy who took up writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...compensate, she creates, as it were, sub-conflicts. Annie's fiance (Bill Pullman) is shown to be, quite literally, a drip (allergies make his nose run); the woman Sam takes up with (Barbara Garrick) has a grating laugh. The movie condescends to both of them rather unfunnily. And, anyway, they begin to seem like time fillers, something to divert us from the fact that this film really has no center. Hanks and Ryan are, as usual, charming, and so are Malinger as destiny's underage enabler, Gaby Hoffmann as his girlfriend, eagerly egging him on, and Rosie O'Donnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Romance | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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