Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some Cambridge University lecturers were reportedly not happy about the deal, in part because the cash will be released gradually over the next five years, The Times of London reported today...
Theology lecturer Gillian Evans was quoted in The Times as saying the deal "was being pushed for political not academic reasons" and would lessen the university's independence...
...main reason for the spread in the IPCC predictions is uncertainty about how much carbon dioxide will be added to the atmosphere by human activity, because how we will respond to the threat of climate warming is the greatest imponderable of all. We can probably develop technologies to deal with excess carbon--some scientists talk about removing it from smokestacks and stashing it underground--but the most direct way to control carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not to put it there in the first place. This is the point of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--signed by 84 nations...
Worst of all, the experts believe, such changes could come on with astonishing speed--perhaps within a decade or less. And while we might have a great deal of trouble adjusting to a climate that gets 2[degrees]C (4[degrees]F) warmer over the next century, an ice age by midcentury would be unimaginably devastating. The lingering uncertainty about whether our relentless production of greenhouse gases will keep heating our planet or ultimately cool it suggests that we should make a better effort to leave the earth's thermostat alone...
...worth any less Monday than it was on Friday. Moreover, most investors had good reason to expect this ruling." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding of fact, which strongly suggested he would find the company in breach of antitrust legislation, will likely spur Bill Gates to cut a deal. "Microsoft has to settle really quickly," says Quittner, "because a company of this size and importance can't afford to pin all of its hopes on the outcome of an appeal...