Word: deader
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...initial carbon emission allowances under a cap-and-trade system should be given to industry free, rather than auctioned - even though auctioning would push carbon reductions faster. (President-elect Obama has said he's in favor of auctions.) "The proposal is a dead end - and an even deader starting point," writes Romm. (Read "Obama Cleans Up After Bush...
...matter what congress or President Obama does, there is one aspect of the industry that is beyond rescue. The Detroit of the American Dream, the Benevolent Manufacturing State - the big-metal, Big Labor, big-brother, bigger-than-its-britches Detroit - is deader than Studebaker...
...screen Fan Zone set up in the Plain Palais that drew throngs of Geneva's Portuguese and Turkish populations to watch the Switzerland-Czech Republic game followed by Portugal-Turkey. But Geneva is a serious city filled with diplomats, private bankers and watchmakers. Geneva on a Sunday is still deader than road kill...
...governments when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, while the Soviet Union and post-Mao China "were socialist in name but capitalist in practice." The same jungle that has shielded the N.P.A. from military defeat has also isolated its fighters from a modern world where their cherished ideology is deader than disco...
...They are meant to be destroyed,” Reyes says about the instruments. “It has to do with the idea of creating a space for violence where violence can be practiced as an exercise of style. It is like a controlled accident.”DEADER NOT BETTERThe son of chemical engineers, Reyes started thinking about the relationship between science and art early on, an interest that was spurred by the scientific metaphors his parents used in everyday speech. “They used to say that an idea would ‘crystallize?...