Word: meter
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...Finally, through these mild French send-offs and bureaucratic forms of address, I had joined the ranks of the Metro Meter Maid. Phrase by phrase, rule by rule, I built my own bureaucracy...
...increase in sea level will have disastrous effects on our country,” Tong said, “well before the half-meter rise projected by scientists in the next 50 years...
...other half of the power, the car must be connected to an electrical outlet. To offset the carbon footprint this creates, Palmer installed six square-meter panels at his home in Switzerland, which contribute to the power grid...
...collector Vanessa Branson, is hip and hugely eclectic. In the hallway an unmistakable Bridget Riley - all colorful zigzag brickwork - is juxtaposed with rows of leather slippers and mirrors, which immediately lend the painting a Moroccan edge. A stunning light sculpture inspired by a hookah pipe and crafted out of meter-long handblown glass vessels by New Zealander Francis Upritchard vies for attention with small studies in carbon and casein donated by sculptor Antony Gormley after he stayed at the hotel. And there's a big decorative abstract by Terry Frost in the cosy bar. Some photography is on show...
...river has had profound social and environmental consequences for the Jordan Valley. It has reduced habitats for the 500 million birds migrating each year from Europe to Africa. It is killing the Dead Sea, which, without replenishment from the Jordan, is being reduced in depth about a meter a year. And it is helping decimate Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank--home to some of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities--which are slowly dying of thirst without access to the river or the authority to dig their own wells...