Word: ultra
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...exchange for the cessation of Saturday work. The committee also complained about emissions from construction vehicles, which residents have previously protested at neighborhood meetings. Residents demand that Harvard insist that its contractors switch to using low-sulfur diesel fuel for off-road equipment, such as cranes and earthmovers, and ultra-low sulfur fuel in trucks. Lucey said the University has told its contractors to install “scrubbers”, or emissions filters, in the large equipment, which is more effective in reducing emissions than switching to low-sulfur diesel fuel. He added that the construction trucks...
...grays upon contact with the passions of competing groups and the difficulties of balancing individual conscience against social cohesion. Some limits, such as libel laws, are considered legitimate to protect individuals, while other restrictions, such as those that regulate obscenity, supposedly protect social standards. Even in the ultra-tolerant U.S., with its fiercely guarded tradition of First Amendment rights, the law restricts many forms of utterance: among other things, child pornography, language that incites criminal conduct and, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated, "falsely shouting fire in a theater." Yet few things have ever challenged accepted notions of free...
...comparison between Hamas and Likud is inaccurate on a number of levels. The first regards religiosity. While Likud was seen as an ultra-nationalist party in 1977, Hamas combines ultra-nationalism with fundamentalist Islamism. It does not merely pursue an international policy that is uncompromising, and territorially maximalist, but also formally seeks the implementation of sharia as the law of the land—with all of the complications that such a program would pose for Muslim women and for the myriad Arab-Christian groups living under its authority...
...crisp Saturday night in earlywinter, an armada of Hyundais and Saturns arrived at the colonnaded Bridgehampton Community House in the center of the Hamptons, a thin necklace of ultra-wealthy hamlets at the tip of New York's Long Island...
...shoot for one that's closer to half that. Expenses on the underlying investments shouldn't be more than 1%. This will knock a lot of plans out of contention, but that's O.K. In the end, you're going to be left with only one plan anyway. Ultra-cheap plans include the Utah Educational Savings Plan and New York's 529 Savings Program...