Word: staving
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...volleyball is also a game of momentum shifts, and the Crimson was able to put together a late rally, thanks to some timely slams by sophomore middle hitter Elissa Hart (13 kills, four blocks) that brought the score to 13-7. However, the Lady Knights manage to stave off the Crimson assault...
...spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when a compromise bill is worked out later this fall...
...warmed an average of up to 1.1 degree F over the past 100 years, no solid evidence has emerged that this is anything but a natural phenomenon. And the uncertainty has given skeptics--especially Gingrichian politicians--plenty of ammunition to argue against taking the difficult, expensive steps required to stave off a largely hypothetical calamity...
Even if Lindzen is wrong and the IPCC report is right, there might not be much anyone could do. Slashing emissions of greenhouse gases to stave off global warming would be straightforward enough, but that doesn't mean it would be easy. Among the strategies recommended in the new report: switching from coal and oil to natural gas, turning to nuclear and solar energy, slowing deforestation, altering land-use and traffic patterns, curbing automobile use, changing life-styles and employment patterns...
...other words, people in the developed world would have to completely transform their society, and rich countries like the U.S. would have to subsidize poor but fast-developing nations like China. And that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts...