Word: targeting
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...pile at issue there - with 10,000 "undervotes," 930 isn't a tall target - could get to pick Sunday's winner...
...Bush's reservations may well be closer to the popular instinct in the U.S. - after all, it's going to require wrenching, expensive changes in American consumer behavior to achieve the Kyoto target. After all, right now we're going in the opposite direction. Forget about 7 percent below 1990 levels - the government's own Energy Information Agency predicts that at current rates of consumption, U.S. carbon gas emission levels will be 33 percent above 1990 levels by the time the 2010 deadline rolls around...
...round of talks, Washington had a new proposal - counting forests, which supposedly serve as "carbon sinks" by soaking up greenhouse gases, as part of a country's emission reductions. Indeed, the U.S. negotiators went in suggesting that the scale of U.S. forests was sufficient to cut its emission reduction target in half. Needless to say, the Europeans aren't having any of it, dismissing the proposals as a specious attempt to let the world's biggest polluter off the hook...
Conspiracy theories about last week's vote are flying, but I'm skeptical. A plot of that scope would require levels of cunning and competence unheard of in Florida politics. If the national election was being stolen, it was probably by accident. The target more likely was some county-commission runoff or maybe a seat on the port authority. That the presidential nominees happened to appear on the same ballot was merely rotten luck...
...with 197 of 531 precincts counted, but officials released no numbers, saying there were too many questionable ballots remaining. As of Saturday, 31 precincts had yielded 12 votes - for Bush. But with constant objections being lodged from both sides, canvassing board spokeswoman Denise Cote said meeting the previous Thanksgiving target was "extremely unlikely...