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...meter mark, the Tigers held a six-seat advantage over the Crimson. Coxswain Joe Lin called out an early move to keep Harvard close, urging his boat to push back on Princeton as both crews headed toward the halfway point. Harvard used the second 500 to methodically slash into Princeton’s lead, and by the time both boats sped through the Mass. Ave. Bridge, the Crimson had trimmed the margin to just three seats.And once they were under the bridge, the Harvard heavyweights took the second 1,000 meters into their own hands. The Crimson took back...
...mobbed by photographers and television reporters who waited for hours to catch him on camera. With Saudi Arabia sitting atop the world's biggest known energy reserves - 264 billion barrels of oil and nearly 258 trillion cubic feet of gas - Naimi is OPEC's leading figure, who can slash or boost world oil prices within minutes by a turn of phrase...
...biofuels. He's more concerned about his tribe's recent tendency to waste its precious diesel-powered generator watching late-night soap operas. But he's right. Deforestation can be a complex process; for example, land reforms enacted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have attracted slash-and-burn squatters to the forest, and "use it or lose it" incentives have spurred some landowners to deforest to avoid redistribution...
...They also backed plans to slash their energy imports, which would both save money and boost energy security. And they agreed to boost energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power...
...approval ratings have followed a definite downward trend since the series of large-scale strikes against his labor and education reforms in the fall of 2007. Various groups of public employees including teachers, civil servants, and public transport workers responded with anger to Sarkozy’s plan to slash France’s generous pensions. Perhaps their anger had something to do with the fact that Sarkozy, while espousing the values of hard work and love of labor, announced plans to increase his own presidential salary by 150 percent in October 2007. Thankfully, the contradictory and extravagant nature...