Word: amounts
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...tend to believe that Armageddonistic forecasts are extreme, but then again, with the little amount of money in my bank account, it would hardly be a loss if the institution tanked...
...energy policy has been governed largely by free market forces which have guided us in a shortsighted and amoral direction. We should decrease the amount of oil we import, and try to import from nations with agreeable governments and fair labor laws. This would encourage foreign democratization, reduce our economic dependence on volatile nations and invigorate the U.S. oil industry. Increasing gasoline taxes--currently, our prices are far below those of other industrial nations--would prod the auto industry and consumers towards the nascent inevitable revolution of efficient vehicles. It's time for the US to abandon its dirty policies...
...bananas, support for trade restrictions will grow among many U.S. commercial interests and their advocates in Congress. A preliminary settlement appeared to have been reached last week allowing the U.S. to impose punitive tariffs on $520 million in European goods, though that figure is subject to review. Whatever the amount, it is not likely to please Europe, and that could spark a trade war that would drive up prices for U.S. consumers and crimp markets for U.S. exports...
...Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black inmate on death row for killing a police officer. Says Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: "There's a tremendous amount of evidence that he didn't do it and he was a scapegoat...
...Aspartame leads to "methanol toxicity." Not even close. Trace amounts of methanol exist naturally in many fruits and vegetables, and a tiny amount is released whenever the body digests aspartame. But there's four times as much methanol in a glass of tomato juice as in a can of aspartame-sweetened soda, and our bodies have no trouble handling such a tiny amount...