Word: succeeded
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...most extensive tropical forests - that's begun to change. Though negotiators still need to work out the details, nations here agreed to put deforestation and forest degradation - the damage of woodlands, which can also release carbon - as a main element of the climate change deal that will eventually succeed the Kyoto Protocol. That will eventually open up a new market that could be worth billions, as industrialized nations that need to reduce carbon emissions could choose to pay tropical nations like Brazil and Indonesia to preserve their own forests. The private market - which has been the engine of forest destruction...
...Coppola ends his 10-year hiatus with “Youth Without Youth,” a complicated, cerebral film based on a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. Like Coppola, the film’s main character is given an opportunity to reestablish himself. Unfortunately, neither of them succeed in their pursuits. The film begins in 1938 and follows a once-great, but now-aging professor of linguistics named Dominic (Tim Roth). Intent on ending his life, he takes a stroll through Bucharest armed with an envelope of enough strychnine to do the deed, but a bolt of lightening...
...will be assembled by President’s Day 2008 and an environmentally-friendly production line will be up and running before we begin class next year. This plan may sound ambitions. It should. It’s one of many big promises, none of which is guaranteed to succeed. It would be naïve to expect that alone any of them could reverse the course of global climate change. But if they do become realities, these are the kinds of ideas that have the potential to change our world in a radical way, and that in concert with...
...this Crimson team needs a spark. Richter’s excellent goaltending has allowed Harvard to succeed in low-scoring games, but the offense needs to be ready to step up when the netminder has a bad night...
...over one of the planet's most vexing challenges - global warming. Then again, it is far too hot outside at this time of year to lie about in the sun, and the delegates are all too aware that if they fail, here, to launch a viable road map to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, humanity may fall fatally behind the accelerating pace of climate change...