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...should know--that the programs will not do so in any significant way. They encourage utilities, businesses and industries to shift to natural gas, then fail to ensure sufficient supplies of the fuel. The lawmakers refuse to make the tough choices on energy supplies and consumption, while they cater to the demands of campaign contributors and special interests. Worst of all, when politicians craft a conservation program that actually works, they abandon it. As a result, after three decades and dozens of energy bills, Congress has helped position Americans so they may be closer to an energy crisis than...
...course, since 9/11 it is impossible for Bush to expose himself to his audiences the way his predecessor did. Goree island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
What people really want shoved up them, the makeover TV genre says, is a new identity. But people also need to believe that this glamorous new self was really inside them all along. Whether these shows remake your house, your wardrobe or your chin, they cater to the same fantasy: that if someone with a gifted eye took the time, that person would see your beauty and uniqueness, would probe past the lie of your drab exterior and bring the shimmering true you to the surface. We used to call that kind of penetrating gaze the look of love. Today...
...Raith's sales have almost tripled in the past two years, to €24 million. Rail4Chem was founded by the chemical giant BASF in 1999 after it bought a polyurethane and fertilizer plant in eastern Germany, only to find that state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB) wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned track, so BASF set up Rail4Chem. The railroad unit was spun...
...guitar, I’ll just tune it for you,” he says after Hoelting admits she’d love to learn how to tune a guitar herself without a tuning tool. Taylor’s tolerance for amateur music-making seems too low to cater to Hoelting’s wishes for general inspiration, but she is endearingly chipper about the whole thing, even after he calls her version of the famous Beatles song a “panicked, struggling, almost, quasi-‘Blackbird...