Word: measuredness
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The language of science, like that of the United Nations, is by nature cautious and measured. That makes the dire tone of the just-released final report from the fourth assessment of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a network of thousands of international scientists, all the...
Just how unsettled the world is by the possibility that the U.S. might make a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities can be measured by how frequently the Bush Administration trots a senior official out to insist that there are no plans to launch such an attack. On Nov...
Feats like a $100 billion foreign-reserve cache have helped lower the country's risk premium, as measured by JPMorgan Bank, to 175, vs. 1445 when Lula took office. The manufacturing sector, including world-class regional jetmaker Embraer, now represents a quarter of GDP, and Brazilians feel more consumer confidence...
Last week, a company that funnels millions of dollars to the genocidal government of Sudan became the world’s first company worth more than $1 trillion. PetroChina is now the largest corporation, measured by market capitalization, in the world.
This gloomy assessment comes from the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization representing the 26 rich, gas-guzzling member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The agency is not known for alarmist warnings, and its World Energy Outlook is typically viewed by policy wonks as...