Word: tightenings
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...rendering southern California unlivable. The Clean Air Act actually allows California to set its own, stricter vehicle emissions standards - rather than deferring to Washington - and then allows other states to choose to follow Sacramento's lead. Following in that tradition, in 2005 California passed a law that would tighten greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, starting with 2009 models, eventually leading to a 30% reduction in overall global warming emissions by model year 2016. Sixteen other states, both red and blue, have moved to adopt California's standards since, but to implement the legislation, Sacramento needed a routine waiver from...
...took to the streets Thursday to protest already approved educational reforms, and have pledged to join Nov. 20 strikes by public sector workers angered by plans to eliminate nearly 23,000 state-funded jobs next year. France's transport unions will stage strikes Nov. 14 to resist plans to tighten their retirement schemes - hoping for the same crippling effects of their Oct. 18 walk-outs that brought much of the country to a standstill. With similar disruption expected for much of the remaining year, Sarkozy may soon learn that winning back hearts in America was far easier than winning minds...
...first line in place of Chute, and using Chute to center the second line. The change worked, and Harvard returned to the ice reinvigorated for the final period. After the game, Stone was happy to have come away with a victory, but stressed that the Crimson needs to tighten up its performance in the coming weeks. “Hopefully these guys will understand that the win gives us confidence, the separating themselves in the third period gives us confidence,” Stone said. “But they also know that they can come better prepared...
...come in handy in the next few months. The U.S.'s subprime woes will have little effect on Indian investors, who have largely avoided leveraged buyouts, unlike their U.S. counterparts, who have been relying on the now shaky credit markets to finance those deals. But if global credit markets tighten, "India won't be immune," says Ernst & Young financial-services analyst Ashvin Parekh. Foreign investors sank $98 billion into India from 2003 to 2006, according to Morgan Stanley, and every major investment bank in the world is chasing that business. Less free-flowing credit will inevitably lead to Indian companies...
...doubles immediately before singles,” Chijoff-Evans said, referring to the doubles bracket championship he played with senior co-captain Dan Nguyen just before, losing to a duo from Columbia, 9-7. “I had lots of blisters, and I thought it was going to tighten me up. But the result was to the contrary.” Chijoff-Evans cruised past Western Michigan’s Michael Calderone, 6-3, 6-1, earning the championship of the tournament’s black singles bracket. To make it to the final, Chijoff-Evans fought through...