Word: environmental
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This minimize-the-load strategy operates in other places beyond the racetrack. We adopt it intuitively when we're carrying a heavy load and find ourselves maintaining an even, almost level gait, thus reducing the up and down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward...
But Jairam Ramesh, the Indian Environment and Forestry Minister, had other ideas. With Clinton standing by, Ramesh told reporters that India was in no position to reduce its rising levels of carbon-dioxide emissions, and that the West - which had polluted with impunity for decades - was in no position to...
De Valle believes that kind of pragmatism is exactly what is needed from the Tripartite Forum talks, whose program includes discussions of visas, financial regulations, education and, yes, the environment. "There's an absolute void there, so when you have a catastrophe like the New Flame [a cargo ship that...
The cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to...
But the dramatic rupture on July 20 was about more than technical and financial issues. Also at play were different management styles and views on what direction the Bolshoi should take next - a clash that is possible only in a vibrant creative environment that encourages varying philosophies, something that's...