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Consequently, it is imperative that we take concrete steps towards the reduction of our greenhouse gas production. Unfortunately, tangible successes for control of these substances in the United States to date have come exclusively from the private sector, where individual companies and corporations have taken it upon themselves to explore new alternatives. In the past year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner...
...causation of global warming. The panel, (which issued two prior assessments in 1995 and 1990), made a dramatic shift from their earlier, more conservative stance as a result of five years of intensive research compiled by teams around the world. This report placed the onus for the trend squarely upon the shoulders of a society whose reckless burning of fossil fuels has altered the earth's atmosphere and contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years...
...earned $24.6 billion in fiscal year 2000--no trivial sum. Regarding the second question, for those Americans who pay the estate tax, the tax burden is not as serious as some of the rhetoric makes it out to be. It is assumed, after all, that inheritors do not rely upon the deaths of relatives and friends as their sole source of income. Even if they did, the first $650,000 of the estate is exempt from taxation--and by 2006 that figure will rise to $1 million...
Last night, Bliesath showed that, if called upon, he can capably spell junior keeper Gresham Bayne. He shut out the Big Green for the first quarter and made several highlight-reel stops, including foiling a one-on-none attempt in the closing seconds...
...year to enter college. Gore simply imposes another layer of bureaucracy, with a proposed "National Tuition Savings Program" so that the federal government can tell parents to invest their money in special trusts to pay for tuition. This added layer of government influence has no immediate or practical effect upon decreasing the cost of college tuition...