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...permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that erode into gullies. And oily wastes have leached out of supposedly secure dumps. The consequences of the contamination are unclear, but some scientists believe that since the permafrost confines biological activity to a layer of ^ earth just...
...long as Americans refuse to limit their spending and borrowing in both the private and public sectors, they will weaken the economic underpinnings -- and sour the psychological atmosphere -- of the U.S. position worldwide, especially in Asia. America's indebtedness, to itself and to the rest of the world, soaks up resources that might otherwise be invested to boost productivity and exports. Thus the budget deficit exacerbates the trade deficit, which in turn hurts the dollar and provokes protectionism...
...longer ones. A chief measure of wear and tear in an aircraft fuselage is the "pressurization cycle" -- one takeoff, one landing -- which requires that the cabin be pressurized for high-altitude flight and then depressurized during descent. This places stress on the airframe; over time, repeated expansion and contraction weaken the plane. Like a balloon that has been inflated too many times, the plane's skin becomes vulnerable to tearing. But while the Flight 811 jet has been in service for 19 years and is one of the oldest in United's fleet, it had racked up only...
This is not intended as a call to weaken our defenses in favor of social programs, but to understand that with greater fiscal responsibility in our overgrown military budget we can begin to attack this war going on already within our own borders...
...Independents secured a fifth pro-business, conservative seat on the Council, they would almost certainly weaken or abolish the rent control law and would probably cut zoning restrictions to encourage development. They would also most likely keep Healy in office...