Word: neutralizes
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...past three or four years. Other companies within the industry are managing to reduce their carbon emissions per million dollars of revenue or by cutting emissions outright. And the best are doing even more - the $56 billion computer maker Dell announced in August that it had gone fully "carbon neutral," which is about as green as you can get. "We look at environmental responsibility holistically," says Tod Arbogast, Dell's director of sustainability. "The material we place in our products, how we make them, has an impact from the beginning to the end of its life span" - and even beyond...
...serious work. Garber’s new book, “Patronizing the Arts,” came out earlier this year and takes this topic as its focus. The risk of suppressing the creativity of artists is increased, Garber said, when art is supported by non-neutral institutions, such as governments, which may seek to conform art to their own expectations or beliefs. Garber also noted the tension between the commercial and the exploratory sides of art, stating that while “older art is deeply valued, newer art is sometimes suspect.” Patrons are wary...
...worried about what the next few months might hold. Even in China, the post-Olympics, post-spacewalk euphoria has been tempered by the appreciation that the contraction of the U.S. market for its exports will put one of the key drivers of China's economic growth into neutral...
...quarter, 13:59: A critical penalty--Brown was facing 3rd-and-5, and Brenton Bryant gets called for lining up in the neutral zone. Even worse, Bryant dropped off into pass coverage on the play and had intercepted the pass, so instead of a turnover it's a Brown first down...
...health-care benefits to employees and then would provide a tax deduction of up to $15,210, according to income and family status, for individuals to buy into a government-supervised group of private insurance plans. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Wyden proposal would eventually be revenue-neutral (that is, it wouldn't cost any additional money). According to health-insurance experts at the nonpartisan Lewin Group, it would save money for those making less than $150,000 per year. "It sounds good, but it's really hard to pass anything this complicated," Kamarck warns. "You tell people...