Word: switchings
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...Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers recognize that organic is the way to go. But many are daunted by the time it takes to switch to organic production: three years for a farm and one year...
...Heckling the man who was about to cut their taxes by $100 a week was not this crowd's style. Where a property salesman employs a gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch from the piano of crisis to the forte of triumph. So an audience tends to ride out the bumps with him. "Where the bloody hell were you?" Costello shrieks, referring to an era of high indebtedness when Labor leader Kim Beazley was in charge of the nation's finances. Soon...
...identify fossil-fuel emissions as a major cause. And yet, as was widely discussed at a conference of environmentalists, geologists and writers last week in Ankelohe, Germany, public understanding has not translated into even the simplest of public actions. Less than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one's existing provider (I should know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly no rush to go green or - shudder - stop driving cars. Why such...
Where do you get your news? I'm not a cable person. I do watch the nightly news, but I switch back and forth 'cause I can't stand commercials...
...switch to rock was fine with this Dylan fan; I loved rock 'n roll as much as folk and was exhilarated to think of the impact Dy;an could have in bringing an adolescent musical form to maturity. But by 1966 he wasn't having nearly as much fun making music as I was listening to it. The kid who wanted to be Elvis could now imagine dying like Buddy Holly: "You end up crashing in a private plane in the mountains of Tennessee. Or Sicily. ... I just wanna go home." He went home to upstate New York and crashed...