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...will take to slow the rate of warming require that the White House find ways either to discourage fuel use or to encourage greater use of environmentally friendly technology. The first can mean higher energy taxes; the second can mean more expensive machinery, although some experts argue that the switch doesn't have to cost a lot more. Last month the Department of Energy released a report saying a 20% cutback to 1990 emission levels would be possible by 2010 without raising energy costs, through the spread of new technologies and finely targeted incentives like tax breaks for old coal...
...proposal to switch to a numerical speed limit of some sort will be decided this week; Custer had better odds...
...switch the word "men" to "women," that statement sounds a lot like what Patricia Ireland has been saying about women's struggle for equality ever since she became president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a group that Promise Keepers so staunchly opposes...
...recalled an MIT student who recently wanted to switch his major from a technical engineering field to mechanical engineering. Since Air Force MIT already had "too many" cadets in that area, however, the student's request was denied, and he was forced to choose between staying in ROTC and adjusting his academic interests...
...difficult to switch from one technical field to another, or from a non-tech to another non-tech, but not across the divisions," says Phillips, now a graduate student in English...