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...United States towards a cleaner and more renewable energy profile, it is important to remember that the simplest way to address the energy issue to tackle the basic problem: Seventy percent of American oil consumption goes into the transportation sector. Given that the United States currently has the lowest automobile fuel-efficiency standards in the developed world, we need a combination of more stringent regulations, such as closing the “light truck” loophole for sport utility vehicles and creating more market-oriented incentives for the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles and flex-fuel technologies...
...main MICEX stock exchange shut down for two days on Sept. 16 after it lost 17% of its value in a matter of hours. At that point the market was down almost 60% for the year, its lowest level since early 2006, although it has since been boosted by measures taken by the Russian central bank and the Kremlin. Those measures, however, weren't enough to shore up the nation's largest investment bank, Renaissance Capital, which on Sept. 21 sold a 50% stake to the Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov for $500 million. Just over a month ago, Forbes magazine...
...EMMYS' lowest-rated show ever. Nice work, Groban...
...bank, swallowed the beleaguered investment firm Merrill Lynch, while Wachovia, its competitor on South Tryon, considered a merger with Morgan Stanley. And while the rest of the country is sinking, Charlotte is soaring, with 28 construction cranes downtown. It's got the nation's least-battered metropolitan-housing market, lowest office-vacancy rates and fastest-growing airport. It hosts the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and the NFL's Carolina Panthers. Its center-city population has doubled since 2000, and its light-rail system, just a year old, is already approaching its ridership goal for 2025. Meanwhile, ribbon-cuttings are scheduled...
...target groups. These are well-crafted messages." In terms of actual policy, Strache has promised little except some programs to monitor immigrants who have been convicted of a crime with implanted chips and a call to deport "immigrant criminals." Crime levels in Austria, though rising, are still among the lowest in Europe...