Word: tree
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next year's defense authorization bill contains funding for extra F-22s, knowing that losing this dogfight would doom Gates' effort to retool the Pentagon. "We do not need these planes," Obama said on July 13 in letters to Levin and McCain. (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...mountainous border with Indonesia. O'Hanlon describes wild dance parties at Dayak longhouses, fueled by gallons of tuak, a potent milky rice wine, and enthuses about jaw-dropping tangles of tropical growth along the Rajang and its watery veins, some walled in by lush, 200-ft.-high (60 m) tree canopies...
...million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred the filmmakers to remove a scene in which Brüno asks La Toya Jackson for the King of Pop's phone number. (See pictures of a post-Michael Jackson family tree...
Concern over the economy, indeed, may be one of the few things Obama has in common with Medvedev and Putin. For on the core issues, the countries remain apart. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
Strickland knew there was a global market for rubber wood, which is used for furniture and medium-density fiberboard. He also knew there was an emerging market in wood power generation. Wood may not be the most efficient energy source, but replacing a tree with a growing sapling is basically carbon neutral because the sapling sucks in more carbon dioxide per mass than a mature tree. With volatile oil prices and environmental concerns boosting interest in wood energy on both sides of the Atlantic, Strickland saw an opportunity. "We're the closest supplier to Europe and the U.S.," Strickland says...