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...result, wind turbines now dot Denmark, the country gets more than 19% of its electricity from the breeze (Spain and Portugal, the next highest countries, get about 10%) and Danish companies control a whopping one-third of the global wind market, earning billions in exports and creating a national champion from scratch. "They were out early in driving renewables, and that gave them the chance to be a technology leader and a job-creation leader," says Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "They have always been one or two steps...
...result, it is likely that unrestricted funds—of which tuition is a major component—will make up a larger percentage of FAS’s overall budget...
...This affluent mindset will have to change. The boom did raise the national homeownership rate from 60% to more than 67%, but the bust is bringing it right back down again - probably to less than 60% by the end of the year. As a result, demand for affordable rental units (meaning less than $1,000 a month for two bedrooms in South Florida) is bound to rise. And no amount of empty five-bedroom, three-bath dream houses is going to satisfy...
...What happens in the economy and what's happening as a result of that is affecting the stability of the world," Panetta said. "As an intelligence agency, we've got to pay attention to that because we have to know whether or not the economic impacts in China or Russia or any place else are influencing the policies of those countries when it comes to foreign affairs and when it comes to the issues that we care about...
...analyzing economic trends, he said, the CIA's goal would be "to make sure that we aren't surprised by the implications of the worldwide economic crisis and what happens with countries...as a result of that...