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...Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back up his predictions by citing such obscure data as vacuum-cleaner sales in Iowa...
...Kyoto, Japan, wrangle over how to cut emissions of man-made carbon dioxide, a culprit in the ominous warming of the global climate. In the U.S., the vehicle population has grown six times as fast as the human population, reaching 176 million cars and trucks. American autos are 90% cleaner than they were three decades ago, but they still account for over a third of urban-area ozone. More than 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, and an estimated 15,000 die from it each year--a fact that led the Clinton Administration to tighten clean-air standards last summer...
...cleaner. Last year, Rawlins was bashed by people...she was torn apart. I haven't seen that this year," said Suzanne M. Miller...
Although the Crimson's two weekend contests had identical final scores, Harvard played a much cleaner game against Loyola, the team after whom Harvard NORFOLK STATE 57 HARVARD...
...head start. The collapse of East Germany in 1990 forced many inefficient, pollution-belching factories and power plants out of business, cutting Europe's emissions as a side benefit. Similarly, when Margaret Thatcher broke the British coal miners' unions in 1985, Britain was able to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas. France, for its part, never had much coal and is heavily reliant on nuclear power today. With relatively powerful Green parties and citizenries that tend to care about these things, the E.U. is almost required to take a strong pro-environment line in Kyoto...