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...with 13 to 17 named storms. Three to five of those could reach Category 3 - Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 - or higher, and under the city's new policy a storm that size headed for New Orleans would trigger a mandatory evacuation order...
...violence has reverberations far beyond Nigeria. Oil rose above $50 a barrel for the first time when in 2004 a Nigerian Muslim militant threatened to attack the industry, while fears that the April 2007 elections would trigger renewed violence were a factor in driving the price above $66 in late May. Yergin, of Cambridge Energy Reasearch Associates, warns: "As West Africa becomes increasingly important, consumers in the U.S., Europe and Asia will discover that their own energy security depends in part on political and economic stability in West Africa." American warships already patrol off West Africa, and U.S. energy...
...Both sides have expended much effort domestically to win over detractors. Opposition to the deal in the U.S. comes mainly from non-proliferation advocates who argue that the deal could trigger a nuclear arms race in South Asia and even with China, and will encourage continued defiance of the non-proliferation system by Iran and North Korea...
...exploited the weaknesses of the board's polyglot membership adroitly. He knew the board would have trouble reaching a consensus about his fate; he knew that its members were divided internally; he probably also figured that they were reluctant to take firm action knowing such a move could trigger other investigations into small-stroke favoritism inside the largely oversight-free World Bank...
...Inconvenient Truth, to groups of every size and description. He flies commercial most of the time to use less CO2 and buys offsets to maintain a carbon-neutral life. In tandem with Hurricane Katrina and a rising chorus of warning from climate scientists, Gore's film helped trigger one of the most dramatic opinion shifts in history as Americans suddenly realized they must change the way they live. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed-90% of Democrats, 80% of independents, 60% of Republicans-said they favor "immediate action" to confront the crisis...