Peter Burleigh, the Acting US Ambassador to the U.N., signed the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the Clinton Administration at 3:00 PM EST on November 12. The action symbolically -- but not legally -- commits the U.S. to achieving the ...
Your Inside View to the Strategies and Activities of the Conservative Movement in Washington Issue 206 * December 11, 1998 The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 ...
Holiday shopping will never be the same. Shoppers are spending $2.3 billion online this holiday season, more than double what they spent in 1997.1 And if the federal government doesn't intervene, new developments combined with Americans' passion for the Internet ...
In 1987, the environmentalist Worldwatch Institute predicted an oil shortage would cause a major energy crisis within five years.1 No crisis has occurred. Instead, the oil industry is producing a million more barrels a day than it can sell.2 According ...
This year, Americans will send 2.8 billion Christmas and Hanukkah cards.1 What these Americans don't know, however, is that sending a greeting card - and other messages once entrusted to the post office - may shortly become an entirely different ...
Like most Americans, European-Americans without racist attitudes fear a weak economy, a bad president or schools unable to educate their children. However, many African-Americans believe that European-Americans with racist attitudes still harbor a genuine fear of the day when so-called ...
Recently my husband and I were sightseeing in a large urban city. I misread the map and, instead of arriving at the wax museum, we found ourselves headed for the Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge. "Hon, we better turn around ...
1. What is a "private contract" and what does it mean to a Medicare beneficiary who signs it? As provided in section 4507 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a "private contract' is a contract between a Medicare beneficiary ...
When people turn their minds to the plight of the poor and downtrodden, they rarely think of Bill Gates. Yet when the Clinton Administration announced a new federal spending program, it was aid to high-tech businesses the president had in ...
The African-American leadership group Project 21 says allegations of perjury and an affair with an intern by President Clinton is a critical blow to the President in terms of trust and character. "This recent situation with the President takes on ...
