Word: demand
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...polluters too much slack. The U.S. plan would have adjusted greenhouse gas emission figures to take "sinks," forests and other growing plants that absorb carbon dioxide, into account. The failure of the talks may have come as a relief to big oil-producing countries that might have seen demand for oil drop if industrialized countries were forced into investing in alternate energy sources. Indeed, as recently as September, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other members of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were pressing for compensation in case an anti-global warming deal hurt oil sales...
...days in jungle captivity; in Bangalore, India. Veerappan, who is accused of 120 murders but has eluded capture for 30 years and is regarded as a hero among Tamil separatists, took a $2.17 million ransom raised by two Indian state governments and retreated to his hideout, forgoing his demand for the release of government prisoners...
...Bush, meanwhile, is taking full advantage of the Sunday, November 26 deadline he still claims is illegal. His legal team dropped their suit in Leon County Court on Saturday and will now go to GOP counties one by one to demand the addition of military-heavy stacks of disallowed absentee ballots to certified totals. Six have already gone along and added 44 net votes for Bush...
...take some time out and visit the career fair. Certainly, some students come to Harvard already interested in business, but that doesn't explain the legions of seniors who are dying to convince the McKinsey interviewer that they want nothing more out of life than to determine the market demand for riding lawnmowers in Belize--certainly I can't imagine that too many of us put that on the "career interests" section of our college applications. Nevertheless, each autumn, many seniors come to the realization that Belize's horticultural tendencies can be deeply compelling. Indeed, when faced with the tradeoff...
...Thanks to an activist court, some political ironies and an extraordinary election that was bound to change some rules mid-game, Bush's options are considerably narrower. If he wins on the hanging chads, he can demand a concession. If he loses on the dimples, he'll have to either make himself a liar by surrendering or make himself a nuisance by fighting a scorched-earth war into December...