Word: cleanly
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However, what is most important is that the next administration creates a long-term plan to make the United States less dependent on oil for energy. In this area Gore actually has the upper hand, having already committed himself to funding clean, reliable sources of energy if elected. Bush has criticized Clinton's decision, calling it a threat to national security, as well as an inadequate long-term solution. However, Bush's plan to decrease oil prices is simply for the United States to produce more oil, in part by opening up the currently protected Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling...
Monaco offers an even more complex case for French authorities looking to clean up international financial dealings. The tiny country, ruled by the Grimaldi family, has a government and civil service filled with officials seconded from Paris. With 49 banks and 70 financial institutions for about 32,035 inhabitants, the principality attracts some of the world's wealthiest celebrities by levying no taxes on income, capital gains or dividends. This has long made Monaco a playground for the fabulously wealthy, of whatever background. The recent French report charged that offshore companies and trusts have bountiful opportunities to move funds...
Coupled with the company's recent vows to clean up the diamond trade--tarnished by association with African warlords--the strategy may prove a spectacularly profitable act of reinvention. The firm's floundering share price nudged upward after the June announcement, and it got another boost last month, when earnings reports showed profits trebling in the first half of the year. The surge enabled De Beers to pare down its stockpile of rough diamonds--which, because the company no longer has the ability to set prices, has become a wasting asset. De Beers plans to reduce the stockpile...
...Justice Scalia will side with the 19th century, preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from applying scientific data to tackle our complex air pollution problems. Last year, a lower federal court struck down new, greatly improved soot and smog standards. Will the Supreme Court allow us to keep our air clean? While the question hangs in the air, pollution burns the lungs of people suffering from asthma...
...environment will suffer profoundly if the next President packs the Supreme Court with members who share Justice Scalia's disdain for the legal means Americans have used to clean up our air and water. While the next President will only be in office four to eight years, his legacy on the Supreme Court could harm our environment and our communities for more than a generation...