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Take, for example, power-plant emissions in the U.S., which environmentalists blame for much of global warming. In the mid-1990s, the Clinton Administration was fairly close to striking a deal with the power industry that would have established a comprehensive emissions-trading program. To gain some certainty for their long-range planning, the utilities would agree to mandatory caps on emissions that included not just nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury but also carbon. Companies would have the flexibility of meeting targets in the most efficient manner by buying and selling emissions rights...
...behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later, as a movie critic I would sometimes be censured for a tendency to slander and slash, And I'd say, don't blame me, blame the insidious influence of television, or more specifically the Gang of Four: Perelman, Kaufman, Allen and Nash...
...drug issue "is going to play very badly" for Democratic incumbent Tim Johnson in his bid to defend his seat from House Republican John Thune, says Thune spokeswoman Christine Iverson. That may be why Daschle had Johnson give last Saturday's weekly Democratic radio address. Johnson used it to blame defeat of the Senate bill on the Republicans and contended the House plan "would do absolutely nothing to reduce the cost of prescriptions...
...phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons...
...some of their long-forgotten plans for mosquito control. But it's not as if we're living in the 18th or 19th century, when mosquito-borne illnesses like yellow fever ravaged New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans. Back then, doctors didn't even know that mosquitoes were to blame, and there was certainly no vaccine--as there is now for yellow fever--to help control the spread of the disease...