Word: footprints
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...More troops in Iraq would have made a quantitative difference, but not a qualitative one. And there is some merit to the argument that increasing the size of the U.S. footprint could just as easily have widened the hostility to their presence. The Iraqi insurgency has been impressively adaptive, and would very likely have found a way of expressing its nasty politics even with twice as many American boots on the ground. And the sectarian rivalries that are fueling the civil war are as much present in the democratic political institutions as they are on the violent streets...
...Whatever she might have imagined, it's a safe bet it didn't include going on a diet. But that was before she went to the movie's website (www.climatecrisis.net) and discovered a calculator where she could determine her carbon footprint - a measurement of how many pounds of global-warming-causing carbon dioxide she and her family were emitting annually into the atmosphere from their daily lives - energy they used to power their home, to get around and the energy used to make all the products they consumed. Then she began to figure out ways they could cut back...
...they need smart catastrophe modeling to minimize risk and help price their underwriting effectively but also that they must understand the middle- and long-term liabilities of their investments. With the growth of carbon-trading markets in Europe and the U.S.--and industry's begrudging acknowledgment that its carbon footprint is likely to be taxed in the future--polluting sectors and companies begin to look like less attractive investments...
...attached couples in Starbucks. You—with your lack of seating, loud-noise rock, and homeless clientele—are the perfect wingman for the charitable, yet brief, grabbing of coffee with the awkward kid from section. I don’t want the yuppie strollers and biodegradable footprint-patterned carafes of Peet’s—give me plain cups and the cacophony of the Square any day. I skip the Mather shuttle so I can visit you on my walk to the Yard—without you, how can I rationalize coming to lecture 15 minutes...
...absence of a nonmilitary solution and the political will to take on the militias, the only realistic hope for sustainable peace in Baghdad may be to keep a sizable American presence in the capital indefinitely - but that is the exact opposite of the U.S. goal to reduce its military footprint and allow Iraqi forces to take over. After the failure of the first phase of Operation Forward Together, few civilians in Baghdad have much faith in the competence of the Iraqi forces. Even in volatile neighborhoods like Abu Ghraib, long a battleground between Sunni insurgents and U.S. forces, residents...