Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...learned from Apple things I never knew from reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, like the Stalinist roots of Lamaze and the fact that in the 1st century Pliny the Elder recommended that women in labor drink goose semen mixed with water to ease the process along...
...kept two freezers for years: one for meat and one for the fruits and vegetables we raise. This has enabled us to survive raising four children in a rural economy. I am finally able to tell my children that they never realized their old parents were trendsetters all along! Patty Connolly, CORVALLIS, MONT...
...long boom in stock prices from 1982 to 2000 and the shorter one in housing prices from about 1997 to 2006 were fueled by rising debt. Ever easier mortgage terms and falling interest rates provided a brisk tailwind for home prices. In the stock market, higher profits pushed along by bigger consumer and corporate debt loads brought higher stock prices. Start ratcheting the indebtedness down and throw in slower growth, and both of these processes go backward. For the long-term health of the economy, that's good--as we've learned, debt-fueled growth is not indefinitely sustainable...
...bill's opponents - Congressional Republicans, along with the oil industry and the National Association of Manufacturers, among others - say cap and trade amounts to a massive tax on U.S. energy, which mostly still comes from carbon-intensive fossil fuels like coal. That's partially true - the whole point behind cap and trade is to raise the cost of emitting carbon and drive investment in energy efficiency and renewable power. "No matter how you doctor it or tailor it, it is a tax," said Representative Joe Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican...
...This bill will give us lots of ways to get to where we need to go on emissions reductions," says Keohane. But over the long run, we need to cut carbon out of our energy supply - and that means vastly increasing the role of renewables like solar and wind, along with low-carbon sources like nuclear and even coal with carbon capture. That will require plenty of hard scientific research to bring down the price of renewables - they have to be competitive not just in the U.S., but in countries like India and China, which will emit the vast majority...