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ATF Hears CEI Comments on Alcoholic Beverages
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CEI Files Amicus Curiae In The Case of Trans Union Corporation vs. The Federal Trade Commission
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League of Conservation Voters “Scorecard”: Most Americans Are “Dirty”
Every year, the League of Conservation Voters issues a “Congressional Scorecard.” Supposedly, this Scorecard tells the American public which members of Congress support…
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The Dangers of Precaution
Full Document Available in PDF Has Europe, long the home of so…
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Most Americans Are “Dirty,” Says Enviro Group
Washington, DC, February 14, 2000 – “According to the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) Congressional Scorecard, most Americans are ‘anti-environmental,’” said Angela Logomasini, Director of…
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Testimony Before The House Subcommittee On Transportation in 2000
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Vol. IV, No. 3
Politics Clinton Releases Global Warming Budget The Clinton-Gore Administration’s FY2001 budget is laden with global warming pork and flouts the Knollenberg provision that prohibits implementation…
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Bias May Taint Lesson Materials
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Air Bag-Related Recalls Demonstrate The Need For Real-World Testing As A Prerequisite For Any Air Bag Mandate Whatsoever
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Kyoto Lite: Credits for Early Action to Reduce CO2
(REPRINTED FROM THE JUDICIAL/LEGISLATIVE WATCH REPORT OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST) An old joke tells of a young…
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Clinton Budget Is Not The Full Story
Washington, DC, February 7, 2000 – President Clinton’s new fiscal year 2000 budget proposes to spend $1.84 trillion. While that enormous amount would absorb…
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EPA Takes CEI Comments on Drinking Water Regulations
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Clinton Proposal Will Waste Taxpayer Dollars
Washington DC, February 3, 2000 – Today the Clinton-Gore Administration has proposed adding billions of dollars to that already wasted on failed energy and…
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High Tech Expert Joins CEI
Washington, DC, February 2, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that Jessica Melugin has joined the staff as a Policy Analyst. Prior…
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AOL Time Warner? Not Big Enough for Tomorrow’s Internet
The America Online-Time Warner alliance is important not just for its size nor for the synergy it may create. It demonstrates in the real…
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OSHA: The 1970s Meet the 21st Century
The reaction certainly wasn’t what anybody expected, least of all at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It was a simple letter in…
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Kemp: The Triumph of Democratic Capitalism
Every victory brings new risks. The biggest risk today is a statist counterrevolution being engineered by the architects of a "Third Way…
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Why the Buffalo Roam
Contrary to popular myth and legend, the fabled American plains buffalo were not saved by the US government. They are not even true buffalo.
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (2000 Edition)
Full Study Available in PDF Format The federal government spent $1.7 trillion in 1999 to…
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Odds & Ends: Dangerous Wetlands; Up in Smoke; Haider Ho; Who’s This Hayek Guy, Anyway?
They Ban Aerosol Cans, Why Not Wetlands? A big dilemma is shaping up for the environmental left. Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in…
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The Gore Report: Keeping Tabs on Our Favorite Environmentalist
Elect Him, Or We’re Doomed! Each presidential election is always billed by some navel-gazing pundit or analyst as the most important in a generation. Then…
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Vol. IV, No. 2
Politics Global Warming Activists Work Agitate Iowans The Washington, D.C.-based green activist group, Ozone Action, has been protesting the lack of attention paid…
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Weather Models Failed Again
Washington, DC, January 25, 2000 – Over the weekend, local weathermen predicted that the East Coast, and probably Washington, DC, would be hit by…
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The Triumph Of Democratic Capitalism: The Threat of Global Governance
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Windows and the “Applications Barrier to Entry”: Fact or Fantasy?
View Full Document as PDF Very soon, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is expected to issue his conclusions of law…
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Regulating Greenhouse Gases: Will EPA Take a Dive?
The International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) wants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide. This fall, ICTA, an anti-technology group…
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Vol. IV, No. 1
Politics Congress Oversees EPA’s New Source Review When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a meeting on January 13 to discuss “an alternative…
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An Open Letter to Celebrity Chefs Opposed to Biotechnology
Today, a group of some 30 celebrity chefs from around the United States will hold a press conference at the high-priced Philadelphia restaurant Le…
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The Green Man’s Burden
Call it a new noblesse oblige or the Green Man’s Burden. Whatever you call it, the desire of privileged western-world activists to keep poor,…
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An Interview with James Glassman
Jim Glassman is among the most prescient observers of political and economic trends in America today, with an understanding of first economic principles that…
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Beware the Internet Tax Hackers
Tax-hungry Grinches aren’t happy that you pay no taxes when Christmas shopping on the Internet. The nation’s governors and state and local officials,…
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The Gore Report: Keeping Tabs on Our Favorite Environmentalist
Debatable Behavior The Washington Post reports that Al Gore’s campaign has been sending a man dressed up as an ear of…
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Odds & Ends: Animal Rights Conundrum; Washington Psychopaths; Evil Vegetables; Who Needs the Constitution?
Animal Rights Conundrum, Part I What do you do when a cougar waltzes up to your house and eats your dog? Donald and Nelda…
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Private Conservation and Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe: The Savé Valley and Bubiana Conservancies
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Earth Report 2000
Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet Date: 1999 Edited by: Ronald Bailey Published by: McGraw-Hill Earth Report 2000 is a…
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The Future of Financial Privacy
Chapters Now Available In PDF Format In The Future of Financial Privacy, a new book from the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
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A Cowboy Economy?
On recent trips to Europe, I’ve become increasingly aware of a reality disconnect between the way America is and the way we’re viewed…
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Winning Intellectual Battles, Losing Cultural Wars
While free market advocates wage the intellectual fight, the statists have conquered much of our culture. Twice recently, I was asked to contribute…
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Vol. III, No. 26
Politics Aviation and Global Warming Aviation has come under attack in the global warming debate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released…
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Institute Attacks FAA Child Restraint Mandate As Deadly
Washington, DC, December 17, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that FAA’s newly-proposed child restraint mandate will actually increase transportation fatalities. The…
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Complaint to FTC of Deceptive Advertising by Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
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Public Interest Groups File Deceptive Advertising Complaint Against Ben And Jerry’s
Washington, DC, December 16, 1999 – Citizens for the Integrity of Science and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade…
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Public Interest Groups File deceptive Advertising Complaint Against Ben and Jerry’s
Citizens for the Integrity of Science and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today, accusing ice cream…
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Remarks by Fred Smith to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce Panel on International Taxes, Tariffs & Duties Assoc
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Remarks To The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
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CEI to Commission: Don’t Shackle E-Commerce with Taxes
Washington, DC, December 14, 1999 – Internet taxes would cause irreparable harm to the New Economy, millions of Internet consumers, and the cause of…
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Al Gore’s Statistical Hocus Pocus On Urban Sprawl: Gobbling Up Numbers, Not Open Space
Washington, DC, December 9, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that Vice President Al Gore’s claim earlier this week of an alarmingly increased…
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Vol. III, No. 25
Politics Ford Leaves GCC In a terse statement dated December 3, the Ford Motor Company informed the Global Climate Coalition “that it will…
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Too Much Fear, Too Few Facts
This article is adapted from Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment (1999, Regnery Publishing), by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw.
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Engines of Liberty: Cars and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Privacy and Human Rights: Comparing the United States to Europe
One premise shaping the debate about privacy law in the United States is that the European Data Protection Directive is a more advanced…
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No: Well-Intentioned Boycotts Actually Make the Climb out of Grinding Poverty Even More Difficult
Someone once noted that the law was amazingly equitable – it forbids both the king and the pauper to sleep beneath the bridge! And…
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Institute Releases New Study On “Cars, Women, and Minorities”
Washington, D.C., November 29, 1999 – While grouching over holiday traffic preoccupies much of the nation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute today releases a…
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Africans Have Different Priorities: Ebere Akobundu Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune
Published in the International Herald Tribune Published in the International Herald Tribune November 26, 1999 Priorities need to…
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More Sorry Than Safe
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In the Dark at Sun
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Method to Telecom Merger Madness
The telecommunications world was rocked in October with news of the merger between MCI-WorldCom and Sprint–in dollar terms the largest merger in US history.
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Stop Banking on Failure: A Half Century Wasted at the World Bank
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Rush to Tax Could Produce Net Loss
In the great Kurosawa Akira movie, The Seven Samurai, a bandit gang rides to a hillside and looks down on a small village. One…
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KEMP: The Folly of Kyoto
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Odds & Ends: Toking at the DoE, Pepe LePew Raises a Stink, Fabio, Square Dancing
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Vol. III, No. 24
Politics Pew Runs for Cover As reported in our last issue, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a letter from Jack Kemp, challenged the Pew Center…
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First Do No Harm: EPA’s New Rules Will Worsen Smog
On May 13, 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules tightening motor vehicle emissions, including those from light trucks, a category of…
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Vol. III, No. 23
Politics Yawns in Bonn The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded with little fanfare…
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Federal Reinsurance for Homeowner’s Insurance: Another Capitol Hill Disaster.
Storm clouds over Capitol Hill. House Banking Committee members are teetering on the brink of triggering a mega-disaster this week that is pointed…
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Superfund Legislation: True Reform or a Hazardous Waste?
Given the green light by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to produce Superfund reform legislation before the session’s end, House Republicans are racing…
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Selling Ideas in a Rationally Ignorant World
Conservative intellectuals are increasingly frustrated at the policy impasse of the last five years. Weren’t we told that if we built a better mousetrap, the…
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Cars, Women, and Minorities: The Democratization of Mobility in America
Full Document Available in PDF The central role of…
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Kemp Challenges Pew Center to Global Warming Debate
Washington, DC, November 1, 1999 – In an open letter published in today’s Roll Call newspaper, Competitive Enterprise Institute Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp invited…
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Kemp Challenges Pew Center to Global Warming Debate
Washington, DC, November 1, 1999 – In an open letter published in today’s Roll Call newspaper, Competitive Enterprise Institute Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp invited…
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ER Physicians: “FDA is Too Slow”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 1999—A new nationwide poll of emergency room physicians sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds that delays in FDA…
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ER Physicians: “FDA is Too Slow”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 1999—A new nationwide poll of emergency room physicians sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds that delays in FDA…
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Running On MTBE: Closing The Pumps On The Oxygen Content Requirement
Debate is raging in Congress and in many state legislatures regarding the federal Clean Air Act’s reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, which requires the addition…
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Vol. III, No. 22
Politics Bonn is Underway The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way…
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GOP Continues Attack On Property Rights? CEI Expert Testifies On National Heritage Areas Policy Act Of 1999
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An Antitrust Division Run Amok (Letter to the Editor)
I would have happily signed a letter urging a cap on the Depart ment of Justice’s Antitrust Division budget if I’d been asked [`Hardball and Windows,” op-ed, Oct.
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Shadow Insurance Committee to Meet October 25 to Review Catastrophe Insurance Financing & Redlining Issues
Washington, D.C., October 22, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee will hold its second meeting of the year at 12 noon on October…
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Institute Blasts Clinton Proposal For Costly New Rules For SUVs And Minivans: May Worsen Air Pollution
Washington, DC, December 21, 1999 – President Clinton today finalized new Environmental Protection Agency rules for motor vehicles and gasoline. These so-called Tier 2/sulfur…
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Environmental Sweetheart Suits
Environmental sweetheart suits.
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Taking Humor Seriously
With summer coming to an end, we at CEI have been spending some time mulling over some of the great questions facing our country.
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Cows or Buffaloes?
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Lance Armstrong — Going Postal
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Lessons From Cypress Bay
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The Gore Report
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Odds & Ends: Koala Kondoms, Courtroom Insanity, Superdisasters, The Folly and the Ivy
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Comments Submitted in the FTC/NTIA Workshop on Online Profiling
These comments will address the following questions: I. What are the costs and benefits, to both industry and consumers, of online profiling? II. Are…
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Forest Fires Rage as Government Fiddles: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in LA Times
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 17, 1999 COLLEGE PARK, MD —…
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Kemp: On Kyoto, The Issue Is Power
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and its underlying premise that the entire world’s energy policies can be regulated pursuant to an international treaty,…
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Vol. III, No. 21
Politics CAFE and Presidential Politics The Greens launched a major effort this year to block a freeze on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
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New Book Brings Balance To Environmental Education
Washington, D.C., October 6, 1999 – This week marks the release of the second edition of Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment…
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A National Survey Of Emergency Room Physicians Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Study Available in PDF Format…
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Entrepreneurs Still Finding Sunny Skies
When JetBlue Airlines makes its debut this winter, its passengers may be reaching for buckets of popcorn instead of peanuts. The airline industry’s latest contender,…
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Vol. III, No. 20
Politics Climate Change Funding Unabated The Clinton-Gore Administration continues to engage in attempts at backdoor implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Last year Congress…
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The IMF Beyond Its Time
Recent scandals involving the International Monetary R Fund have prompted Congress to seek ways to reform the IMF’s lending practices. Rather than applying another bandage…
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A Fund of Contention
Whom would you prefer to make strategic decisions for your high-tech business (or one whose stock you own): bureaucrats, or experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the…
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New Federal Tobacco Suit: “Give Me The Money!”
WASHINGTON, DC, September 22, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that today’s federal government lawsuit against the tobacco industry demonstrated that tobacco revenues…
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Reinsurance Proposal Troubling
As Floyd moves up the coastline, it appears that most property owners have dodged the burden of potentially devastating losses that could stress private-insurance markets:…
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Feds Prepare to Gobble Up Land
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Vol. III, No. 19
Politics Bush Attacks Kyoto Those who are concerned about the adverse economic consequences of cutting energy use to prevent the dubious threat of…
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Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce September 14-15, 1999 New York, New York Executive Summary Statement of Frances B. Smith Executive Director, Consumer Alert September 9,…