Word: scrappings
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...certainly have our class rings, our dearly-bought scrap of Harvard parchment, and the promise of regular phone calls from the development office. We share experiences from Expos to the Last Chance Dance. And together we have the burden of living up to the high expectations of being a graduate of this historic school...
...plans aim to scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food. They will further break the link between direct payments and production, allowing farmers to better follow market signals. A progressive reduction in farm subsidies will be accompanied by shifting the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms. And the plans call for an end to the so-called set-aside rules that requiring some land to be kept out of production...
...latest call for a change of course came from economist Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who this week urged the European Parliament to scrap the E.U.'s much-touted target of increasing biofuel's share in Europe's diesel and gasoline consumption to 10% by 2020. Last year, E.U. governments spent an estimated € 3.7 billion ($5.2 billion) on subsidising biofuel production...
...genuinely good day for British justice," says Susan Hawley of NGO The Corner House, one of two pressure groups to have brought the case before the High Court. More could follow. In the next few weeks, the court is expected to force the SFO to reevaluate its decision to scrap the probe, amid mounting pressure for it to revive the investigation. Right now, the SFO is "carefully considering the implications of the judgment and the way forward," a spokesman said. Lawyers acting for the pressure groups expect the government to appeal the ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Justice and Swiss...
...chance to identify, with greater certainty, the best of the best is the promise F1 is holding out this year. Almost certainly, Ferrari and McLaren still have the fastest cars. But with technical aids on the scrap heap, drivers from BMW, Renault and maybe even Williams could just get a look-in. And F1 may gain a new legion of fans - those who, while they'll never be transfixed by fast-moving, logo-covered machines, could be won over by the brave and brilliant souls who control them...