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...school sitcom would have told this joke as a zinger ("Yeah, well, tell your nesting instinct it left a Ding-Dong wrapper on the kitchen counter!" [Canned laughter]). This screwball-vérité style, by adding a layer of visual irony, allows Modern Family to pack its jokes tighter (the straight line and the contradiction are simultaneous) and connects the audience more intimately. You're not just a fan; you're a voyeur...
...Kerry-Boxer bill, most environmental groups supported it, happy to see a bill with a tighter short-term emissions-reduction target. But the bill still has plenty of holes for a piece of legislation that has been in the works for months, saying little about how allowances for carbon emissions would be distributed among polluting industries - a key part of any cap-and-trade bill. And with natural gas fans blaming the bill for having too little support of natural gas and nuclear fans saying there's not enough support of nuclear, gathering up support from Republican Senators and even...
That system simply is not tenable in a tighter legal market, Nanda said...
...Nakamura advised governing bodies to impose tighter regulatory laws, better policed with punitive damages immune to bribes and payoffs that have become such standard operating procedure that developers build the expense into their budgets. He also promoted environmental-impact education programs, not only for politicians and influential private-sector citizens, but also the general population of the city (pop. 5.5 million). "As the problem has been caused by the confluence of many factors, so too must the solution be approached holistically," Nakamura said. "We need to also involve people's body and soul, heart and mind...
...State Hillary Clinton said the Obama Administration was investigating how to "broaden and deepen" the measures, while Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted the menu of potential punishments was a "pretty rich list to pick from" - including the suspension of investments in the Iranian oil and gas industries and tighter restrictions on Iranian banks...