Word: shelfful
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With Obama headed for the White House, many of these changes could have a short shelf life. The true environmental legacy of George W. Bush will be in what he didn't do - address climate change. Since Bush took office, EDF's Patton notes, the U.S. has released more than 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases. "This is a sobering legacy for the nation," she says. "It's time for America to move forward." That job will fall to Bush's successor, Barack Obama...
...Whose side will Obama be on? The old Ted Kennedy liberals he re-inspired, the Blue Dog Democrats he courted, the new arrivals from purple and even red districts whose shelf life depends on a centrist agenda? He has talked about the need to fix entitlements, but try to pin him down on the Audacity of How, and he vanished in a foam of contingency. He has promised to end the war in Iraq responsibly, but the tension between end and responsibility tightens now. He voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but there are bound...
...chocolate choux. During a trip to Japan last year, I had eaten a not insignificant number of these pastries, and I relished the opportunity to reacquaint myself with their virtues. But when I sidled up to a Tokyo store's cream-puff section - yes, there is a fridge shelf dedicated to this particular genre of baked goods in many Japanese groceries - to my great distress, my favorite dessert was nowhere to be found. Like so many food and beverage products in Japan's relentless market, it had been cast aside for newer fads: I found chestnut cream puffs, pumpkin cream...
...help take high-end chocolate national, Hershey's bought organic chocolatier Dagoba as well as top-shelf artisans Scharffen Berger and Joseph Schmidt. Mars is trying to keep pace, launching deluxe Dove bars and premium M&Ms in flavors like raspberry almond for $4 a bag. Supermarket shoppers can now select their sweets on the basis of preferred percentage of cacao (the mod way to refer to cocoa content): from Hershey's Cacao Reserve (35%) to its Scharffen Berger Extra Dark...
...less expensive items are selling, purchases of office furniture that are normally bank-financed are lagging. Customers are telling his sales staff, "We just need to circle the wagons and wait this thing out," Guernsey says. That's true among large corporations too. "People are putting projects on the shelf because the uncertainty came in so fast," a FORTUNE 100 CEO tells TIME. "Everybody in the boardroom is questioning, You want to reinvest now?" And if businesses stop spending, the pain will be felt in industries from steel to construction to carpets...