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...That also happens to be the view of a group of the state's venture capitalists and technology entrepreneurs who promoted the measure, forecasting a windfall of high-skill, high-paying jobs as the state pushes for more aggressive measures to ratchet down emissions. A recent study by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, projects that the law, by spurring more efficient industrial machinery, energy saving appliances and renewable energy sources, could boost the state's economy by more than $60 billion, creating as many as 89,000 jobs, by 2020. Even the electricity industry, one of the biggest...
...Chertoff had good reason to be worried. Senior U.S officials have confirmed to TIME details of the plot that led the Secretary to ratchet up the color-coded security alert for British-U.S. flights to an unprecedented red for "Severe." A total of 24 individuals were arrested in Britain overnight and, says one senior U.S. official who was briefed on the plot, five still remain at large. Their plan was to smuggle the peroxide-based liquid explosive TATP and detonators onto nine different planes from four carriers - British Airways, Continental, United and American - that fly direct routes between...
That legal battle may yet be overshadowed by a bloodier confrontation at Gitmo. Word of the suicides will spread quickly through the prison. Leaders among the inmates could decide to ratchet up the pressure by launching more strikes, more fights or perhaps more suicides. Guantanamo is far from Iraq and Afghanistan, but it could become another front in the war on the war on terrorism...
When Hugo was approaching, I had all the city department heads in my office, and I said that what we had coming was an opportunity--though not one we would want in a million years--to serve the citizens in the time of their greatest need. So you ratchet up all your actions and energies to a close-to-superhuman level. You have to commit to keep them up, because you have a huge number of things going on simultaneously. The best analogy I can give is that we're at war and the enemy is just below the horizon...
...allies want to take the matter to the Security Council to ratchet up diplomatic pressure, and eventually seek sanctions, designed to force Iran to back down from what they believe is a nuclear weapons plan hidden within a civilian energy program. Efforts by France, Germany and Britain to achieve a negotiated solution to the crisis have stalled on Iranian intransigence. Now, U.S. and EU officials say that this week, for the first time, they've won the all-important backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China for a toughly worded IAEA resolution. "It is important that...