Word: ton
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...report brushed aside claims, many emanating from the White House, that reducing greenhouse emissions would be wildly expensive and a blow to economic growth. In February the Administration trotted out estimates that energy-tax increases of as much as $250 for each ton of removed gases would be needed to curb emissions significantly. To the contrary, the panel estimated that reduction of between 10% and 40% in greenhouse emissions could be achieved by doing such comparatively simple things as making buildings and power plants more energy efficient at little or no cost to the economy...
Astronomers will get a chance to answer some of these questions -- and more -- over the next two to eight years as a result of last week's NASA launch of the Gamma Ray Observatory on board the space shuttle Atlantis. The 17.5-ton GRO will circle the earth at a height of 450 km (280 miles), mapping the heavens as it peers to the very edges of the universe. "Gamma-ray scientists are starved for information," says Richard Lingenfelter, an astronomer at the University of California at San Diego. Data gathered on such violent but poetic-sounding celestial bodies...
...only with the help of Berkery and Burke and the likes of Sue Carls, Becky Gaffney, Buffy Hansen, and Francie Walton that Downing was so successful. These players unloaded a ton of shots on Sharkey and kept the defense off-balance because their hustle always gave Downing another option--the pass...
Proksch, 56, the owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
Commercially important fish such as tuna, mackerel and sardines are threatened as well, as are hawksbill and green turtles. Sea mammals are also vulnerable, including dolphins, whales and dugongs, an endangered species similar to Florida's manatees. Only about 7,000 of these docile, 1.5-ton vegetarians are in the gulf, one of the world's largest populations...