Word: grown
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...success stories like this one that will bedevil those attending the Bali conference. One of the central issues will be how to justly allocate the economic burden of reducing greenhouse emissions among industrialized countries - which have grown rich fouling the air and using up natural resources - and developing countries like China, India and Indonesia. "We have to be careful about asking developing countries to lock up their forests," says Taylor of the WWF. That is, at least until the world has found a way to make locking up the forests...
...Language, such concerned citizens fail to realize, is a living organism; languages have always grown, evolved, and eventually died out and will doubtless continue to do so. Today’s French, Italian and Spanish effectively “killed off” Latin. In mainland China, a simplified script and the phonetic system pinyin have replaced the traditional script. Modern English includes “you,” but rarely Shakespeare’s “thee” or “thou...
...Rudd's popularity was to the Coalition, it was even more so to some of his Labor colleagues. Prissy, bookish, and married to a multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that sort of personality where people...
...bronze statue of Wally Lewis - Queensland's greatest rugby league player - whose finest moments occurred at a pre-renovated version of this stadium. Rudd is no footballer. But on this night, to those who've rejoiced in the end of the Howard era, he is a home-grown hero above all others...
...Black can either be strikingly beautiful or a complete disaster," says Clark Frasier of Arrows Restaurant in Ogunquit, Maine, who has grown black carrots in the restaurant's sprawling garden. "Because they have less chlorophyll, they take longer in the ground and achieve a more intense flavor." And, of course, they look cool...