Word: caps
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...cursory examination of Bush’s much-touted “Clean Skies” initiative confirms the suspicions one should rightly have about the environmental and energy policies of the Bush administration. For instance, many are unaware that the plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless...
MCKISSACK: A stock like MBNA, the credit card issuer, we've owned for a long time. It's growing from what was a midcap company into the larger-cap space. It has demonstrated 20%-a-year growth and, with its credit review and issuance process, it has an above-average customer in terms of income and payment history. We've also been very successful with SunGard Data Systems and continue to see that as a good long-term opportunity. It provides specialized software into the financial-services market and recently bought Comdisco to make it a larger player in that...
...like Superman against Brown to put Harvard in control of its own destiny, and one day after he twirled a one-run, six-hit gem to keep it there, Crockett was taking a well-deserved day off at Dartmouth yesterday. But before the sweat had even dried on his cap, his team already needed him again...
...proposal for honors reform being considered is to put a cap on the number of students who receive honors...
...with too many rules and too little incentive to be clean. So in February Bush proposed new legislation to curtail power-plant pollution. His plan, which he dubs Clear Skies, ditches regulations that govern the major power-plant pollutants--mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides--in favor of a "cap and trade" system. The market-oriented idea is to set nationwide targets for emissions reductions that are mandatory, but let industry decide how to comply...