Word: supportable
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When Lola Ham Minifie, then a Harvard admissions officer, learned several years ago that she had leukemia, she felt she needed a base of support...
...1970s, and while public attention and Government funding have waned, research into the technology has continued. "The capital costs have come down from about $50 a peak watt to $5," said Speth. If they drop to $1, solar power will become competitive. That could happen without significant Government research support -- but it will happen sooner with...
...Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz movement, the twin pillars of Labor support, opted instead for the finance portfolio. Peres insists he will continue to speak out on foreign policy issues as leader of the Labor Party. But it will be Shamir and Arens who finally give Israel one official voice on diplomatic matters...
Ultimately, slowing the population juggernaut will depend on the ability of family-planning experts to create well-tailored programs for different societies and even for different segments of societies. But first, governments will have to raise public awareness and rally support for population control with a cohesive message about the dangers of rampant growth. India, one of the first countries to adopt a family-planning program, some 30 years ago, failed to forge a national will for the task, and the population is now growing at 2% a year...
...Mechai, a former government economist, launched a private nonprofit organization, now known as the Population and Community Development Association (P.D.A.), to foster family planning and distribute birth-control devices. With growing encouragement and financial support from the government, the Bangkok-based P.D.A. has made population control a national mission. Today some 70% of Thailand's couples practice family planning. Mechai estimates that , without his program Thailand's population, currently 54 million, would have grown to 64 million...