the scientific evidence." It will take years, perhaps a decade or more, before a definite climatic trend can be established with satellite data.
In the view of many scientists and most agri- cultural specialists, greenhouse warming may well be beneficial if it occurs, since crops need both warmth and carbon dioxide to flourish. Global warming would be especially welcome if, as some scientists expect, the current inter- glacial period, which began about 11,000 years ago, comes to an end relatively...
the scientific evidence." It will take years, perhaps a decade or more, before a definite climatic trend can be established with satellite data.
In the view of many scientists and most agri- cultural specialists, greenhouse warming may well be beneficial if it occurs, since crops need both warmth and carbon dioxide to flourish. Global warming would be especially welcome if, as some scientists expect, the current inter- glacial period, which began about 11,000 years ago, comes to an end relatively...
only 1.5 per- cent annually in 1985-90, compared with al- most seven percent in 1975-85.
Companies now confront a changed eco-nomic environment. "Tax policies, demands for quick financial returns and takeover threats have discouraged long-term strategies based on investing in research," Corcoran explains.
But if corporate R&D has fallen on hard times, it is partly because of its own past (eco- nomic) performance. Fewer than half the com- panies that gave birth to an important inven-...
stand-up singers [who played no instruments]. Most of the big bands of the 1930s and '40s had folded, and instru- mental jazz,which achieved a cer- tain amount of general popularity during the swing era, lost much of its commercial appeal with the rise of bebop." Cole, Teachout says, chose to move with the times. In the fall of 1951, he quit playing jazz altogether and became a full-time singer. With songs like "Unforgettable," "Mona Lisa," and "Too Young," he...
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academic career. He was, Rubin writes, "a man in full emotional recoil from democracy, the middle class, religious latitudinarianism, and the cramp of the flesh. His adopted English identity became a badge of virtue to signify his emaricipation from vulgarity." And his poetry was a way for him to assert "an intensely per- sonal appetite for suffering, an agonizing fear of sexual appetite, and a shrinking from carnality, along with a desperate need for religious cer- tainty...
Giuseppe Sacco, in The Wasking-
The End of the
ton Quarterly (Summer 1992), Ctr. for Strategic and Interna-
Italian Republic tional Studies, 1800 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006; "A Second Italian Republic?" Angelo Codevilla, in Foreign Af-fairs (Summer 1992), 58 East 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
In Italy, which has had 51 governments since entist Giuseppe Sacco and Hoover Institution the end of World War 11, talk of a governmental Senior Research Fellow Angelo Codevilla &qu...
party bosses. For nearly a half-century, Codevilla observes, "cabinets have risen and fallen, policy has lurched left or right, careers and fortunes have been made and lost, strictly deals made among factional potentates. The voters have been spectators." Now, however, that seems to be changing.
On May 9, 1991, then-President Francesco Cossiga, a Christian Democrat who urged peo- ple not to fear the term second republic, de-clared that the government had become a "cosa nostra"...
the increased re- luctance of the International Monetary Fund and other foreign creditors to keep bailing out the economically troubled government.
"The message of the Zambian transition that has come through most loudly and clearly," Jo- seph writes, "is that Africa is ready for multi- party democracy." If Zambia's experiment in democracy is successful, many other African nations may be induced to follow its example.
Japan's Elusive "The Economic Sources of Japan's Foreign...
BRITONS: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
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