Search Details

Word: amounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Certainly, it's a perfect era for a car company that is green (it boasts zero-landfill production plants), safety-focused, and can deliver a fair amount of value and performance. In the snow belt regions of the Northeast and intermountain west, Subaru has long had a following because of its all-wheel-drive portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subaru: A Rare Bright Spot Amid Automakers' Gloom | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...also need to focus on improving the agricultural productivity of those parts of the world that have been left behind by the Green Revolution - like Africa, where average crop yields per acre remain well below those in Asia or the West. One simple way is to increase the amount of fertilizer available to African farmers. Sanginga notes that about 440 lb. (200 kg) of nitrogen fertilizer is generally needed to grow 5 tons (5,000 kg) of maize, but the average African farmer can afford only 8 lb. of fertilizer. We can also work on safeguarding the degraded soils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Global Warming Portends a Food Crisis | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...market theory harbors the assumption that if you're not rational ... you'll be driven out of business," he says. "It's clear that traders aren't rational. They can be. But whether they're rational or not really depends on how they interpret information. It depends on the amount of steroid in the system." For anyone trying to come to terms with the global economic slowdown and the financial-market ruin that caused it, that ought to be little comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Successful Traders: The Testosterone Effect | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...look at North Korea and our interaction with them over the last 20 years, they've had an amazing strategy and no power; we've had an amazing amount of power, very little strategy, and the result over 20 years has been about a tie." - On how a weak foe can frustrate a superpower (before a House Armed Services subcommittee, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dennis Blair | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...second classes of instruments “provide a continuous view of what you get as you pass though the air,” Wofsy said. The third and fourth classes “can help you put the point data in context, so you have a tremendous amount of cross data between the various measurements.” The data the plane collects will be “fed into computer models” in order to help “put together the picture of where the carbon dioxide is coming from,” said Bob Henson...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jet Used To Improve CO2 Measures | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | Next