Word: bulleteer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have, if not zero-emission vehicles, then to be as close to a zero-carbon footprint as possible. People would like to imagine that Utopia is around the corner, and that electrically powered cars are the instant solution. And I will tell you that there is no silver bullet. We have to embrace a whole range of alternative technologies. If we want to view electrically powered cars as one very viable means of getting to the Promised Land, then we have to face the reality that there are huge technological hurdles to overcome with regard to battery technology: cost, durability...
...jerk reaction to the crime and moral depravity unfolding just beyond Duffy’s front door, his cinematic ode to vigilante justice took years to garner a solid following. Slowly seeping into the lexicon of frat houses across the nation via limited re-releases and DVD distribution, the bullet-riddled spiritual journey of the MacManus twins eventually drummed up a large enough fan base to warrant the production of “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,” an equally entertaining—if not particularly inventive—second installment of the Bostonian retributive...
...would be created through the construction and maintenance of these reactors, the improvements in our energy efficiency as a nation, the ensuing energy independence, and the enormous progress in lowering emissions and combating climate change that would result.Few other energy sources have so much potential to become the silver bullet to our energy woes. Wind and solar power together could not provide 90 percent of France’s electricity, as nuclear power does, nor could they allow the country to become the largest exporter of electricity in the world, as it currently is. Even in the United States...
...known about them. On a recent afternoon, however, I actually met several. There was Amir, a reedy 17-year-old who sneaks out to the protests without telling his parents; Asif, a muscular 24-year-old rickshaw driver; and Muddasar, 20, with soft blue eyes and a dark red bullet wound in his left shin. Their de facto leader is Imran Zargar, 24, who spent 11/2 years in jail after one ugly clash. His police record then disqualified him from any job with the government, by far Kashmir's largest employer. Says Zargar: "I found that I had no future...
...There’s no silver bullet to do it” Obama said, acknowledging that the question of how the United States will transition from fossil fuels to renewable fuels remains unanswered. “But there’s no question that we must do all these things...