Gundars Rudzitis and Jeffrey Schwartz, in Envi-ronment (Oct. 1982), 4000 Albemarlc St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016.
The sizable energy and mineral resources of federal parklands make tempting targets for developers. But Rudzitis and Schwartz, geog- rapher and graduate student, respectively, at the University of Texas, warn that if development proceeds, as urged the Reagan administra- tion, the resulting air pollution alone would hasten the already serious deterioration of the parks' beauty.
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Gundars Rudzitis and Jeffrey Schwartz, in Envi-ronment (Oct. 1982), 4000 Albemarlc St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016.
The sizable energy and mineral resources of federal parklands make tempting targets for developers. But Rudzitis and Schwartz, geog- rapher and graduate student, respectively, at the University of Texas, warn that if development proceeds, as urged the Reagan administra- tion, the resulting air pollution alone would hasten the already serious deterioration of the parks' beauty.
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rainfall, the authors estimate, leaving a 16 billion gallon per day "deficit ."
Industry's demand for water is high-manufacturing a single glass bottle requires up to 660 gallons-but it returns most of what it uses. Farm irrigation accounts for 83 percent of the water consumed, most of it lost through seepage or evaporation. Seventeen western states ac- count for 93 percent of the irrigation water used. Because surface water is scarce in these states, they rely heavily on underground...
Dick, Long John Silver in Stevenson's Treasure Zslaizd. At the other extreme were such idealized objects of pity as Tiny Tim in Dickens's A Christinas Carol.
Such characters evoke ill audiences both fear and its companion, pity-and force them to confront their coinplex feelings about "subhu- man" beings. The evil cripples of the 19th century have their counter- parts in today's horror movies, notably in Goldfinger and other sinister folk in the James Bond movies who use their artificial...
Richard Grenier, in Commentary Plastic Sharks (Oct. 1982), American Jewish Committee, 165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Americans who regularly see foreign movies seem to believe that Euro- peans produce more intelligent, sensitive, and somehow "better" films than Hollywood does. Grenier, Commentary's movie critic, notes that
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U.S. viewers have unrealistic notions about the international film in- dustry.
Only a tiny selection of foreign movies is distributed in t...
PERIODICALS
U.S. viewers have unrealistic notions about the international film in- dustry.
Only a tiny selection of foreign movies is distributed in this country. (Such "art films" accounted for one-half of one percent of U.S. film industry income in 1981.) Far more typical of the European cinema, Grenier says, are cops-and-robbers and adventure movies.
Indeed, across Europe, American films are most widely admired. Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford grace marquees all...
23 percent, earmarking much of the increase for oil and gas exploitation in Siberia. Investment in "non- productive" sectors-housing, service industries, schools, and hospitals-already at a postwar low (28 percent of investment) will be further curtailed. Yet the Kremlin has promised its people more con- sumer goods.
The new plan also exacerbates old difficulties: While industrial reno- vation will be concentrated in western Russia, and new energy and raw materials sources will be developed...
1978, the bureaucracy had swelled to 1.9 million souls, with another 1.3 million employed in government-owned corporations. [Egypt's 1979 population: 41 million.]
Overstaffing has reached monumental proportions: The Central Au- diting Agency, for example, has no fewer than 72 undersecretaries of state. Other "bureaupathologies," Ayubi notes, include inefficiency and poor performance. Only 15 percent of government employees regularly report to work on time. Cabinet ministers, whose tenures...
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