Word: efforts
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...reflect the cost of pollution. By the time officials computed the costs of tainted rivers, smoke-filled skies, shattered ecosystems and strip-mined hillsides, their growth figures had dropped so dramatically - in some provinces they fell close to zero - that the proposal was quickly scrapped. By 2007 the effort had collapsed completely...
...conflict: infrastructure. It's telling that India has demanded that China cease work on the $2 billion Kohala power plant in Pakistani Kashmir. (The 62-year dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir is as sensitive for India as Tibet is for China.) The plant is part of a systematic effort by China to assert its presence on the rim of the subcontinent, where India has long been the acknowledged superpower. In both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the Chinese are funding new ports. The Chinese Foreign Minister visited Nepal last December to launch construction of a new highway connecting central Nepal...
...freshman’s effort proved to be the Crimson’s last shot of the game. The Big Green regained its control of the ball and, just as in the first half, Harvard relied on its defense to deliver the victory...
...matter, in part because it only has so much leverage that it can wield over the Pakistani military. During the Bush administration, there were suggestions that Washington was even secretly backing anti-Iranian groups like Jundullah and staging covert operations against Iran from Baluchistan. But a more public effort to reach a just solution for Baluch grievances would go a long way toward securing stability for Pakistan in general. The Baluch disturbances have put on hold plans to build a lucrative gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan - a link that would enhance regional cooperation as well as boost...
...will probably come up with really cool ideas for this (maybe you'll even figure out how to be a food item and still look hot…slutty salad, perhaps?), but for those of you who want to get a free burrito by expending as little effort as possible, FlyBy has put together a special guide. Check it out after the jump...