Word: fixes
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...nature of energy politics and environmental fads promotes embracing the easy, often more popular fix at the expense of the best one, typically at the governmental and corporate level. The Whole Foods chain’s absolute abandonment of plastic bags (which, as was elegantly stated on this page last week, might end up increasing its customers’ environmental impact) is one of dozens of examples of a major corporation polishing its environmental boilerplate without retrofitting its inefficient engine...
...It’s easy to see why corn-derived ethanol became this sort of easy-fix solution, and why it has limited potential as a practical global replacement for gasoline going forward. Ethanol is an ace in the political deck of cards; it is backed by a powerful agricultural lobby and grown heavily in the (usually) politically indispensable state of Iowa. Moreover, the infrastructure for distilling and mixing corn-based ethanol into our fuel had been in place since it replaced methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) as the fuel additive of choice early this decade...
...when it worked, but it always had problems,” he said. Faulty scanners were the origin of most of these glitches. “The scanners would break more than the computers,” he said. “It would take an entire day to fix them before they broke again. That definitely slowed things down.” For now, the outlook for the mail center notification system remains unclear. Kerkache said that the e-mail system will return, though he does not know when. Heyburn said he would prefer that the mail center...
...system is fundamentally fair and calling the issues raised by the reformatting of the tennis tournament “anomalies.” “We go to Harvard,” said Canaday’s Hardwick. “There has to be someone who can fix this system...
...Manhattan, understandably fretful that her beau might die before her baby is born. Spurlock's rationale is that he's got to at least try to make sense out of this crazy geopolitical mess we're in, so he can someday tell his child he did his best to fix it. But his real goal is what occurs to many men on hearing their about to become fathers: flight! The film is an adventurer's version of a boy's night out, and Spurlock trumps it up as a mission to justify abandoning Jamieson in the months when she needs...