In his election victory speech, President-elect Bill Clinton declared the election, “a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the end of the cold war and …[t]o face problems too long ignored—from AIDS to the environment to the conversion of our economy from a defense to a domestic economic giant.”14 His administration’s conversion program included money for defense worker retrainin. [...] The Growth of the Camo Economy and the Commercialization of the 9/11 Wars. [...] The Board conceived of its role not just as a regulator but as a convener of the business sector, local governments and the public to solve the state’s air quality problems.26 Then in 1990, the California legislature added the component of industrial development to the state’s air quality portfolio. [...] Policies at the Federal Level Insufficient California, and the nation, also needed a national industrial policy to turn the promise of the end of the Cold War toward other national challenges. [...] It was insufficient to overcome the inclinations of most of the prime contractors to hunker down in the remaining realm of military contracts and wait for the military budget slide to turn around.
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