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Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Linked—Again
The latest government press conference on the ozone layer, held on April 5th, announced that this protective shield had been eroded over the Arctic…
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Development Bankruptcy
World Bank/IMF Protestors Had the Right Idea, But For the Wrong Reasons The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are…
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Dazed and Confused: Protestors Blame the Market for Government Abuses
The protests in Washington, DC, ignited by the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attracted a wide array of…
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Kemp: Clean Up the Planet with Sound Science: The Earth Day Crowd Has It All Wrong
Is mankind the greatest threat to the earth, as Vice President Gore and Greenpeace would have us believe, or the best hope for stewardship?…
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Drop the Limits! Limits on Foreign Technology Workers Hurt America
The technology sector accounts for close to one-third of the productivity growth in today’s economy, but the pool of qualified American tech workers…
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Odds & Ends: Airhead Leo; Customers Getting Irate?; Sprawling Mistakes; Ministry for Self Esteem
End Notes for the May issue of CEI UpDate WHO’S THE MAYOR OF LOUISIANA, ANYWAY? The intellectual heir to Raquel Welch appears…
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Government Wants Control of MS
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George Allen Gives Keynote Address at CEI Annual Dinner
Former Virginia Governor George Allen gave the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual Warren Brookes Dinner on April 27, 2000.
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Bust Up Microsoft? CEI Weighs In
Statement of James L. Gattuso, Vice President, and Clyde Wayne Crews, Director, Competition and Regulation Policy, April 28, 2000 “The extreme plan…
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What I Saw At Earth Day 2000
CEI sent Kendra Okonski to roam the Mall in Washington, DC, on Earth Day 2000. Here is her dispatch from the front…
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EPA Issues Worst Case Scenario Regulations
Washington, DC, April 26 – “Congress scored only a limited victory for public safety by ensuring that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not…
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Break up Microsoft? (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Of course Paul Krugman is right, that, along with the loss of a uniform standard that allows many kinds of software to…
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Gorging on Regulations
Congress is now debating the $1.8 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 18 percent of nation’s economic product, the official budget at least…
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Flushed Without Success
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Earth Day Out of Balance
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Dinner To Honor Memory Of Legendary Writer
Washington, DC, April 24, 2000 – Former Virginia Governor George Allen is scheduled to give the keynote address Thursday at the 6th annual…
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CEI Comments to ATF About Alcohol Labeling Rule
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Earth Day 2000—A Time For Celebrating Successes
Washington, DC, April 21, 2000 – There will be a lot to celebrate tomorrow when millions of people around the world gather on the 30th…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issues statements on Commercial Insurance Deregulation, Workers’ Comp, and Electronic Comm
Washington, DC, April 19, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issued three statements of consensus today, concerning commercial insurance deregulation, workers’ compensation…
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Vol. IV, No. 8
Politics Assessing the National Assessment The U.S. Global Climate Research Program is about to release its National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of…
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Is Mankind a Titanic Failure
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a spokesperson for Earth Day 2000 (April 22), has bought into environmental alarmism. “The Earth is heating up and…
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Anti-Trust Law For Dummies
There's a secret to anti-trust law, but learning it isn't likely to reassure a high tech investor pondering the implications of the Microsoft verdict. The…
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Had This Day Lost its Momentum
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Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability
Full Document Available in PDF Julian Simon would have been impressed…
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If You Like Higher Gas Taxes, You’ll Love President Gore
If you like the current high gas prices, then you’re going to love the Kyoto Protocol. That’s the United Nations global warming treaty negotiated by the…
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Developing World Scientists Condemn Anti-Biotech Chefs
Tuskegee, Alabama, April 10, 2000—A group of agricultural scientists from the developing world today condemned the Chef’s Collaborative, a group of celebrity chefs…
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The US versus Microsoft: Winners and Losers — Melugin Op-Ed in Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Let Consumers – Not the Government – Play Favorites…
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U.S. PIRG Report Distorts Science of Global Warming
Washington, D.C., April 6, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today accused the U.S. Public Interest Research Group of misleading the American public about…
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Vol. IV, No. 7
Politics Senate Bills Get a Hearing The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 30 held a hearing on two Republican bills…
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Microsoft Stands Up for Consumers and Innovation
Washington, DC, April 3, 2000 – Consumers and the Competitive Enterprise Institute today praised Microsoft for refusing to sell out consumers’ interests by settling…
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Erin Brockovich Cancer Case Isn’t Good Science
In “Erin Brockovich,” movie star Ju- lia Roberts plays a legal secretary who takes on the cause of cancer sufferers in a small California town. She…
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One-Track Mind
Molly Munger graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974, a member of the school’s first class that was more than 10 percent female. She was…
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Regulatory Budget Check
However controversial the $1.7 trillion federal budget may be, taxpayers know what Washington officially spends in the congressionally approved budget. That places some…
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Proposed Regulatory Report Card
Regulatory Report Card Recommended Official Summary Data by Program, Agency, and Grand Total …with 5-year historical…
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California, Here They Come
Last month, I briefly visited the San Francisco Bay area. I’ve been in the region numerous times during the past few years, and each…
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The Dangers of Playing Politics With Science
Al Gore’s “Tragic Indifference to the Human Consequences” Last August Vice President Al Gore told a captive audience of science students at…
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From Working Girl to Madam: Julia Roberts Procures for the Trial Lawyers
Julia Roberts played a working gal in her first motion picture hit, Pretty Woman. Her career appears to have reached new heights with her…
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You’ve Got Cancer!
Ladies, Don’t Be Fooled By Those Fear-Mongering E-mails Admit it. You’re deep into the mid-afternoon lull when you hear that carol of…
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Are Most Americans Dirty? The League of Conservation Voters Thinks So
Is your congressman “pro-environment” or “anti-environmental” Is your congressman "pro-environment" or "anti-environmental"? Every year, the League of Conservation Voters tries to answer that…
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CEI/Cooler Heads Sue EPA: Agency Stonewalling on Constitutional End-Run
The Cooler Heads Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court…
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Odds & Ends: Toe Sucking Advice; Nader’s Right?; Deputy Undersecretary for Hot Sauce
GO GREEN, AL! Disgraced political consultant Dick Morris has weighed in with advice to the vice president on how to win in November:…
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The Protocol’s Illusionary Principle
In an editorial last month, this journal pointed out that the biosafety protocol recently completed in Montreal “violates a cardinal principal of regulation—namely, that the…
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Regulatory Cost Balance Sheet
A new report to Congress by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) finds that health, safety and environmental regulations cost between $174 billion and…
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Internet Sales Taxation: Beyond the Moratorium
The Internet sales tax debate has been between the National Governors Association’s proposal to grant states the power of remote taxation and the…
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Antitrust Not On Internet Time: Microsoft Remedies Discount Serious Competitive Threats
Many have come to believe that the technology industry requires strict governmental policing of allegedly anti-competitive behavior. But today’s software and Internet companies…
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Vol. IV, No. 6
Politics Norway’s Government Falls on Anti-Kyoto Vote After a vote of no confidence on March 8, Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik announced the…
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CEI/Chamber of Commerce Environmental Summit 2000 slated for April 7
The gloves come off April 7. That’s when Ron Bailey, adjunct scholar at CEI and the editor of Earth Report 2000, squares off…
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Debate: Should The Kyoto Protocol Be Ratified?
Debate: Should The Kyoto Protocol Be Ratified? *** MEDIA ADVISORY*** CEI Scholar…
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Privacy Disclosure Requirements: Boon or Bane?
View Full Document as PDF Après Reg P: Le Deluge–You’ve Got (Lots of) Mail The booming US economy demonstrates the…
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The Sun Also Warms: Harvard Scientist to Address Capitol Hill on Friday
*** MEDIA ADVISORY*** The Cooler Heads Coalition Invites you to A Global Warming…