Word: credited
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...good news is that closing the biofuel loophole isn't that complex. All emissions from biofuels should simply be counted as carbon, and companies or countries that get their biofuels from sources that actually reduce greenhouse gases should get credit for those cuts. But politics will be another matter - the biofuel industry already has a lot of weight, especially in the U.S., where environmentalists need the votes of rural and Midwestern representatives in Congress if they are to have any hope of passing a cap-and-trade bill. Challenging the biofuel loophole could effectively scuttle cap-and-trade...
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...credit rating report issued by Moody’s Investors Service in April said that Harvard was considering halving its capital spending and new debt issuance due to investment losses. The report said that Harvard had previously planned on issuing $3 billion in new debt over the next few years to fund campus expansions, in addition to spending roughly $1 billion a year on capital projects...
Shore said that many of Harvard’s peers have asset-to-debt ratios that mirror the University’s current situation, and he noted that credit agencies have maintained Harvard’s ‘AAA’ rating despite the bond sales. Most elite institutions have also retained their top-notch credit ratings, although a number of other colleges did find themselves downgraded this year...
...Ergo” deserves a certain degree of credit if only for its ability to genuinely terrify. It would be difficult to find a postwar book that leaves an impression as petrifying as “Ergo.” But a novel, due to its inherent features as a genre, tends to reach its height when it delivers multi-layered thoughts and sensations that expand themselves throughout the breadth of reading. Instead of delivering on this front, Jakov Lind limited the artistic potential of the novel by consciously designating a purpose to it. “Ergo...