Word: grayness
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...Even so, brokers - there are 11 brokerages involved in various aspects of the market - are optimistic. The price of a metric ton of CO2 has plunged since the ets scheme began officially on Jan. 1 - to less than ?7 from the informal "gray-market" figure of ?13 at the start of 2004 - but has inched upward again, closing at ?7.23 last Friday. The trading system is designed to limit greenhouse gases to specified targets while minimizing compliance costs - and fining offenders, starting at ?40 per ton in April. So if the price is very low, says Drummond, it could...
...humble, daily stage of our lives is transformed. Really, the effort that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) puts into each semester’s student-faculty dinner is quite unbelievable. And it pays off, too: the spectacle of young men and women in their nice clothes politely dining with gray-haired professors is truly enjoyable to behold. The evening is one of those rituals which make us all feel that, for a moment, we are participating in some custom of yore...
...Simmonds' keen characterization comes from both her clever writing and exceptional drawing skills. Using what looks like a soft pencil and gray wash, she creates naturalistic drawings that camouflage what are actually carefully composed arrangements of gesture, posture and facial affect. One remarkable panel shows a Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought...
...feathered arc of a doctorbird's tail, the spicy tang of jerked pork, the gray serenity of Blue Mountain mist. These are images and sensations from a particular place, a certain spot in the Caribbean that has been called "the Land of Wood and Water" by some and "The Land of Look Behind" by others. Columbus deemed it "the fairest island that eyes have beheld" and listed it as Yamaye in a log entry in 1493. The Indians who were the first inhabitants called it Xaymaica and other variations; Spanish invaders called the place "Santiago" but after the British took...
Through McNeil yesterday, Gray called the account “absolutely untrue...