Word: jimming
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...rural offensive. She ran her first campaign ads on Springfield TV stations. She's visited conservative southwest Missouri 27 times so far, says spokeswoman Adrianne Marsh. By mid-August, McCaskill had campaigned in 47 of the state's 109 rural counties. Of course her opponent, Republican incumbent Jim Talent, is also running hard in rural areas. Which means that one of this year's biggest Senate races will be decided in the smallest places, like Fairdealing, Missouri, population...
...from Washington on carbon emissions. Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 among the nation's electric plants, faces a Supreme Court hearing this fall over its failure to install up-to-date pollution controls during refurbishment of coal-fired plants. But at the same time, chief executive Jim Rogers has been vocal in calling for "mandatory, market-based and economy-wide legislation at the federal level to address the carbon issue" sooner rather than later. "What we need now is to understand what the rules are going to be. Only then will we know how to invest...
...factories that produce university goods to prevent such evasion.Before any such plans can be implemented, however, more support for DSP is needed. “We need more [schools] than we have now,” said Duke University’s director of trademark licensing and store operations, Jim Wilkerson, who also serves as a DSP working group chair. “We don’t know what that magic number is,” Wilkerson added. “But we all recognize that broader participation by schools will lead to better implementation...
...dwell on either the force of arms or politics. We were conscious that Europe had changed, and in many ways for the better - but we knew that it still had great challenges ahead. So we set out to produce an issue with the theme Europe's New Frontiers. Jim Ledbetter, a senior editor of Time Atlantic who masterminded the project, says, "From the beginning, when we asked writers to suggest stories, it became clear that we were asking people to think of frontiers in an entirely different way. The suggestions were so strong and varied that I knew...
...pushing back. Microsoft is waking to the ad-revenue world, legions of Web 2.0 start-ups are dreaming up useful new tools, and Ask.com and Yahoo! are closing the gap in search. "People have been brainwashed that search can't get any better than Google," says Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone. Ask has dumped its gimmicky Jeeves icon and zoomed in on search, sensing an opening...