Word: expanded
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...seem to have got the message. One of Chevron's ads says the world is currently burning 2 bbl. of oil for every barrel of new oil discovered. ExxonMobil says 1987 was the last year that we found more oil worldwide than we burned. Shell reports that it will expand its Canadian oil-sands operations but elsewhere will focus on finding natural gas and not oil. It sounds as though Shell is kissing the oil business goodbye. M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist, correctly predicted in 1956 that oil production in the U.S. would peak in the early 1970s--the moment...
...widows.For now, the administration’s success in cleaning up the mess it caused in Iraq is contingent upon its success in the delineation of defensible borders for Iraqi cities, towns, and villages to minimize the damage caused by insurgents and terrorists. To achieve that, America has to expand the safety of the Green Zone beyond its literal boundaries, to build up adequate defenses around Iraqi civilians, and to hold on.Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Adams House...
...kids would like that. I get that as a question, because they think that's going to be the next step. The reason I moved her into first grade was because I could expand the storyline from kindergarten. Now she would be a full day, she would be a full-time student, she would have lunch, she would to move along and be able lose a tooth. But second grade doesn't do the same thing. It doesn't seem to open up any more doors that aren't already opened. At some point, I'm going...
...then it was Arafat's turn to foot-drag. He withheld instructions to close, fearing that a Hebron agreement would lift international pressure on Israel and free Netanyahu to accelerate building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank as well as slow action to fulfill Israel's commitment to expand Palestinian autonomy further. Netanyahu fanned Palestinian concern about the settlements when his government on Dec. 13 restored to those communities large public subsidies that had been revoked by the previous government...
...intention to sharply slow faculty hiring as a reaction to unexpectedly high pressure on the budget. That decision took professors by surprise when word of it trickled out of University Hall in late summer.But in an e-mail yesterday, Kirby cast higher expenditures as part of a plan to expand the Faculty’s physical and human resources for which it has long been preparing financially. Indeed, Kirby’s first annual letter to the Faculty, in 2003, warned of budget deficits by fiscal year 2005.Kirby did not address the projected size of the deficits discussed...