Word: standard
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...wisely, but few have invested in the most energy-efficient equipment and lighting systems. Contends Amory Lovins, director of research at the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute: "The technology exists today to save 75% of the electricity and 80% of the oil used in the U.S. without lowering our standard of living at all." Several electric utilities are leading the way in making companies more conservation-conscious. Southern California Edison runs 50 different energy-management programs, which helped hold the growth in demand for the utility's electricity to 2.1% over the past decade, in contrast to 4.1% from...
...authored a number of books on economics and philosophy, including On Ethics and Economics, The Standard of Living and Commodities and Capabilities...
...left unsigned--as it was on Saturday--it is also an act of cowardice. The comic irony, of course, is that the issue addressed by the anonymous writer in this case relied upon the fact that Indy staffers Cornwell and Lattmann identified themselves as authors--a minimal journalistic standard with which your writer did not even comply. We wonder...
...they achieve an emotional bond -- a standard for hospital melodrama -- but in reveries rather than everyday contact. The patient becomes a stand-in for the nurse's dead mother; the nurse is transformed into the patient's long-lost sister, then an estranged daughter. The little dramas of hospital routine thus become freighted with the burdens of decades. Trivial exchanges achieve the dimensions of catharsis. Puig deftly interweaves other themes, including the oppression of all women under Latin machismo and the extent to which South Americans may still defensively see theirs as a colonial culture...
While the latest crop of poets to be produced by Harvard has yet to meet the standard of greatness set by their teachers, these writers, too, have been driven by the need to write...