Word: dirtiest
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...think it's a drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes off the burqa to reveal a skimpy red cocktail dress underneath. She promises to tell the audience "the dirtiest joke you ever heard," and then proceeds to do so - in Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative Muslim immigrants in socially and sexually permissive Scandinavia. She makes...
...tried to go to my resident tutor, my House Masters and even President Summers, but this Arafat answers to no one but himself. He wanted victory, not compromise, in our dispute over the room so he destablized the situation with all the dirtiest tactics. I could hear him sitting on the toilet, cackling as bomb after bomb horribly disfigured the porcelain bowl. “I have no control over it,” he said with grin. “It is the fault of the rich food in the dinning hall...
Although there may be short-term reductions in air pollution as minor efficiency improvements are implemented, in the long-term the dirtiest and least efficient factories can continue polluting at current levels while making only those improvements that will increase their profits. The law is also destructive because it allows some smokestacks and machines to increase their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions?...
Bush may be on to something here. Enforcing existing clean-air law has become a legal nightmare. Industry has taken advantage of overlapping and unclear regulations to drag enforcement actions through the courts. The result is that it often takes years before utilities are forced to clean up their dirtiest plants. "Our proposal will guarantee 70% reductions of these pollutants," says Connaughton, "without having to resort to lawyers...
...stringent as the ones included in Bush's Clear Skies plan. That's because any trading system that does away with existing regulations, as Clear Skies would, has potentially deadly side effects. It could undermine the EPA's long fight to bring many of the nation's oldest, dirtiest power plants into compliance with current law. And since the caps would be nationwide--letting a polluter in one state trade credits with a clean plant in another--localities that suffer from the dirtiest air could be left with no recourse. Environmentalists say the caps in Bush's plan...