Word: hoping
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...think you're able to see it on YouTube. [See clip below]. It's all so good, though, because India has been through this huge thing with the Bombay [bombings], and the floods and so many other things. I'm glad there's something to cheer about, and I hope the controversies don't bring that celebration down...
...many ways, it will determine its economic future as well. The key, Hedegaard insists, will be the world's two biggest carbon emitters, the U.S. and China, each of which essentially sidestepped Kyoto. (Though China ratified the Kyoto Protocol, it wasn't required to do anything.) Hedegaard sees hope for firm carbon targets. In the U.S., Obama has talked green early in his term, added incentives for energy efficiency and renewables to his stimulus plan and supports a domestic carbon cap-and-trade program that experts believe needs to be in place if the U.S. is to take the lead...
According to McFadden, this year’s executives hope to continue expanding CEB’s jurisdiction beyond its three traditional events: Yardfest, Camp Harvard—the fall ‘Welcome Back’ celebration—and the Harvard-Yale pep rally. In October, the CEB hosted a “dinner and a movie” screening of “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” The event was paid for out of “surplus” funds that had not been spent on the big three...
...high-minded talk of bipartisanship and common purpose, Barack Obama was always aware that Republicans in Congress weren't going to simply set aside their philosophical differences and embrace the new President's ambitious agenda. But he had reason to hope that Democrats on Capitol Hill, while not going along with everything, would at least give him a honeymoon period. So it must be a bit of a jolt these days for Obama to frequently find himself so out of step with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose tacit support of Obama's campaign was felt long before her endorsement...
...book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama offered a paean to the glories of flying on private jets. He lovingly described his first trip on a Citation X: "The plane took off, its Rolls-Royce engines gripping the air the way a well-made sports car grips the road ... I could see how people might get used to this." The punch line of the story was that Obama's staff asked him to give up the practice, which was legal, because he was the Democrats' Senate point man on ethics reform. "It was the right thing...