Word: plant
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...handed our heaters over to whomever came," says Hruby, summing up the Czechs' encounters with the armed forces that passed through his country during the wars of modern history. "We should rather plant potatoes than radars...
...ordinary politician, to the man who was to become his campaign-finance chairman. Instead, weaving a web of potential major donors became just another enterprise of Giuliani Partners. With one hand, the firm signed contracts to advise such security-conscious businesses as Entergy (a leading U.S. nuclear power plant operator) and Broadwater Energy (which hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in New York's Long Island Sound). With the other hand, the company began reaching out to such key Bush supporters as oilman T. Boone Pickens, investor Thomas Hicks and the Bass family...
...protect street trees that are in the path of construction.” In a letter delivered yesterday, Healy said such concerns already fall under a Massachusetts law allowing city governments to charge an assailant who “wantonly injures, defaces or destroys a shrub, plant, [or] tree” with a $500 fine and the cost of the defaced shrubbery...
...still came again another day. With inclement weather conditions pounding Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team’s home opener against Holy Cross was postponed indefinitely, with no makeup date announced. The Crimson spent the two previous weekends on the road, competing at the Northern Invitational in Plant City, Fla. and the Eller Media Stadium Classic in Las Vegas, Nev. Harvard tallied a 4-5 record in the non-conference matchups. Harvard is next scheduled to take the field in Macon, Ga., where the Crimson will compete in the Mercer Nissan Classic on the first weekend of Harvard?...
...succeeded in reducing acid rain by half. But even the Kyoto treaty doesn't put any cap on greenhouse gases in China and India, where billions of these carbon credits are traded. Sure, you can pretend you're offsetting Western greenhouse pollution by supposedly cleaning up a dirty coal plant in China. But China is adding a new coal plant every week. You could build a particularly dirty "uncapped" power plant, then sell hundreds of millions in carbon credits to reduce it to a normal rate of pollution. The result? The polluter gets very rich. The planet continues to cook...