Word: caps
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...would bring to the White House. Romney calls his decision-making process “bathing in the data.” He pours over information, debates with colleagues, and implements a policy only after hearing the case against it. He’s cheap too, promising to cap non-defense discretionary spending at inflation minus one percent. Indeed, Romney the businessman could restore fiscal responsibility to the GOP brand...
...made it out of clay.” Friday’s ceremony represents a significant shift from Harvard’s earlier years, when it limited the number of Jewish students admitted to the University. In 1922, then-President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, proposed to cap the number of Jewish students at Harvard—then 21 percent of the student body. In a letter published in the New York Times, Lowell—for whom the House is named—maintained that it would benefit the University and help reduce anti-Semitic sentiment. When outright...
...enough time? The evening cocktail parties were just getting started in Bali as former Vice President Al Gore was accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, thousands of miles away. In his speech, Gore called for bold and immediate action from the negotiators in Bali, including a universal global cap on carbon emissions. "We must quickly mobilize our civilization," he said. "Something basic is wrong. We are wrong and we must make it right...
...argues that we can reduce greenhouse emissions without hurting our economy, claiming that more energy-efficient technology will pay for itself. However, if that were true, companies and consumers would already be choosing to use clean energy technologies for the lower cost. Putting a government-mandated cap on our carbon emissions is only necessary because reducing emissions has a cost that most people feel outweighs the benefits. Furthermore, that point runs contrary to the rest of her column, in which she claims that advances in energy-saving technology are not enough to stop global warming. The expert she quotes...
...it’s the nature of growth, the composition of consumption, that we want to be concerned about.” In recent years, there has been a general “command and control” approach to regulating the problem. For example, the cap-and-trade system, which consists of an overall cap on emissions and the buying and selling of emission permits, has been very successful, especially in the sulfur allowance market, he said. Kolstad expects to see “major progress” in carbon emissions in the U.S. over the next two years...