Word: replenishing
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Mankind must realize that growth should not outpace the ability of a natural resource to replenish itself within its given time frame. The human species has grown arrogant. Nature does not run on our clock; it has its own. HARRIETT E. BOWIE Ruckersville...
...with $112 million in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. In Washington, the Treasury Department challenged the report's conclusions on the ineffectiveness of the effort to clamp down on terrorists' assets. But the U.N. document also detailed the relative ease with which terrorists can cross international boundaries and replenish their supplies of weapons. Al-Qaeda, said the report, "is by all accounts 'fit and well' and poised to strike again at its leisure...
...same small planet, we're coming to realize that we're drawing from a finite account. The amount of crops, animals and other biomatter we extract from the earth each year exceeds what the planet can replace by an estimated 20%, meaning it takes 14.4 months to replenish what we use in 12--deficit spending of the worst kind. Sustainable development works to reverse that, to expand the resource base and adjust how we use it so we're living off biological interest without ever touching principal. "The old environmental movement had a reputation of elitism," says Mark Malloch Brown...
...operatives had previously sent young men recruited throughout all over the world for terrorist training in Afghan camps. Now, the organization's inner core of cadres - estimated by experts to number some 3,000 men - have dispersed throughout the Arab and Muslim world. And their priority will be to replenish and extend the network by recruiting and training new operatives, building new terrorist networks among the locals, and folding those and pre-existing local groups into a more diffuse international network. That may be why Washington has taken such great care to warn Americans that its war on terrorism will...
...Guard since the 1998 murder of his predecessor, Alois Estermann, by a corporal passed over for a merit award. "And it goes without saying that in order to work in the Vatican the candidate must be a church-goer. He must believe in what he is doing here." To replenish the ranks, Segmüller has hired a job-recruitment firm in Switzerland to tap into the potential pool of suitable candidates, which he estimates at about 30,000 in this predominantly Protestant country of 7.3 million. Now three recruiters are visiting the nation's military boot camps, Catholic parishes...