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Other climatologists believe that any long-term cooling trend is being offset by a "greenhouse effect," caused by an increasing atmospheric content of carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels. The CO2 prevents some of the heat radiated by the earth's surface from escaping out into space, thus warming the planet's atmosphere. Warming-trend advocates note that winters in such normally chilly regions as Scandinavia and New England have been uncharacteristically mild in recent years, and glaciers in the Alps have actually retreated. Even a modest rise in world temperatures would bring with...
...sins of the fathers weight heavily on Children of Dune. The worst faults of the first two books are abundant in the present volume--clumsily crafted writing, intellectual pretentiousness--which the achievement of a writer creating his own universe and abiding by its rules does not offset...
...show the world that even temporarily they could run a de facto emergency government based on sanity, justice and efficiency." Even the fact that the Palestinians protect the U.S. embassy in Beirut-and claim to have arrested the killers of Ambassador Francis Meloy and his aide-has not offset that failure. Moreover, the cancellation of a U.S. convoy out of Beirut last week because the Palestinians said they could not guarantee its safety, may be further evidence of the Palestinians' weakening position...
...four years. He spent the intervening time campaigning for local Republican candidates, particularly in the sunbelt, picking up IOU's wherever he went. So when Rockefeller emerged with his inevitable polls showing him beating Johnson in '68, it hardly mattered--Nixon had the GOP county chairmen. Rockefeller tried to offset Nixon's advantage with a $4.6 million media blitz and a new set of polls. But after the assassination of Robert Kennedy it was too late--Nixon had run in the primaries, and Rockefeller was trying to run in thepolls. The party leaders resented...
...reality: 67 of them, representing 161,000 of the city's 247,000 employees, accepted a two-year, "no cost" contract that provides only for modest cost-of-living salary adjustments (at most, $543 a year). More pointedly, the contract allows such raises only if they can be offset by increases in productivity or reductions in fringe benefits. As a result of the agreement, Treasury Secretary William Simon announced that New York would immediately get a $500 million installment on the $2.3 billion in loans promised by the Federal Government. The loan enabled the city to survive yet another...