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...emissions by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012 (under the Kyoto Protocol), Japan has figured out a way to save energy with style: no tie, no jacket, no buttoning up. Dubbed "Cool Biz" (kuuru bizu), the new casual has officials and executives shedding their signature suits a la Clark Kent this summer and raising office thermostats 5°F, to a wilting 82.4°. Aptly dressed in casual clothes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to save the second largest importer of oil 81 million gal. each summer. But the policy already has many conscripted conservationists sweating in their seats. "Like samurais...
...place where a minority can have its say and even have a shot at winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the Senate is that it's different from the House. The passions of the moment can cool here," says North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, one of the Senators who was trying to come up with a deal to avert the vote on the nuclear option. If Republicans can manage to end the filibuster of judicial nominees, Democrats warn, it is only a matter of time before they end the filibuster on other issues as well...
That year, 1998, she licensed a slipcover design and tried to market it. After discovering how hard that was to do, she started Abby's Idea Factory to help inventors turn their ideas into products. Last spring a guy named Kent Chamberlain walked in with the idea of developing a power beer for people after they work out. Waters hated beer. But she liked Kent. So she started thinking about a different kind of beer, one designed for women like her. "The big companies had looked at a beer for women and shied away because the product was watery...
...solicitor general’s office essentially said that there is no constitutional limit to putting conditions on funding,” said FAIR founder Kent Greenfield, a professor of law at Boston College. “If they win, it’s the largest expansion of government prerogatives in a generation...
MELVIN H. LAKE -- Kent, Wash...