Word: longingly
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Much of Woods' reported billion-dollar wealth has come from endorsements - Gatorade, Nike and Electronic Arts, among others - and it is these deals that are usually most damaged by crises. But as long as Woods still sinks the ball, big companies will want to walk in his spikes. Nike and Gatorade have already released statements of support. They are too heavily invested in him to cut him loose...
...easy to rush to condemn projects like these that seem counterintuitive to the very logic of the CDM. But the planet's atmosphere is perfectly happy with the tradeoff, says Derwent of the IETA, "just as much as it would be happy with the reduction of CO2 over a long period by the adoption of wind power in the place of coal." What matters is the absolute reduction in carbon emissions, regardless of the source, he says. "That's what markets do, they find the cheapest, most cost-efficient way of producing whatever it is that's demanded," says Derwent...
Following Obama attorney Greg Craig's exit, we need an analysis of who "won" in this reversal of campaign promises [Nov. 30]. Why did Craig and his team, who were carrying out Obama's original promises, lose? What does this portend for the shape of the Obama Administration long-term...
...difference, this argument likens abortion to the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. Contrast this with my right to ride the subway—I certainly am entitled to ride the subway however often and for however long I want, but only provided that I can pay for it. In either case, abortion is considered permissible, but only in the former case would the government be right in funding it. The anti-Stupak arguments do not provide any reason why abortion should become one of the former...
...fledgling democracy. But Obama's plan to dispatch 30,000 extra troops to the war next door has been greeted with ambivalence. While Obama's setting a date for the beginning of a withdrawal was welcomed, the element of the new strategy that has Pakistan's military sensing a long-awaited opportunity is the prospect of negotiations with the Taliban. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...