Henry Waxman ( CA) and Bobby Rush (IL) wrote a letter to Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-MI) calling for hearings on an asserted link between Hurricane Sandy and global warming.
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The means of her ascension is Sir Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush), a perfect Machiavellian character who serves the Queen as adviser, deadly assassin, and spy.
The 1880s saw a shift from Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing), to Alpine skiing (downhill skiing), because the adrenaline rush of gliding down a mountainside had more mass appeal than skiing across level terrain.
First-half tries from Jason Spice, Thomas (2) and captain Xavier Rush secured a bonus point, with Tom James crossing late-on.
In truth, the flight to the real signaled a rush to consumption (housing is consumption) at the expense of the productive economy.
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Housing is the result of otherwise productive economic activity, not the driver of it, so when real estate markets reached frothy heights from 2004-06, some, including this writer, warned that the rush to the real (authored by a weak dollar) was an ominous signal.
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The money has set off a gold rush among big tech companies (including Microsoft, ibm, ge and Siemens) that hope to capitalize on a lucrative new market.
Everyone is in such a rush to guarantee a child's future, yet nobody has been able to rightly (and righteously) explain the ultimate reward.
With the popularity of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, there has been a rush by hardware manufacturers and chip makers alike to rush into the category, which had been pretty sleepy until Apple entered the market.
Cameron White (40 not out off 39 balls) added a rush of runs at the end, and Australia knew they were on top once Brett Lee had Xavier Marshall edging behind on the first ball of the hosts' run chase.
Retail sales have been soft except for automobiles (pent-up demand or just a rush to buy fuel efficient vehicles ?).
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Worse, it creates so-called cliff effects: a rush to the exits when assets are downgraded (or likely to be), especially to below investment grade.
Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), a young Mossad agent whose wife is expecting a baby, is told by his boss (played by Geoffrey Rush) that he is to lead the five-man squad that will avenge those deaths.
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It took 60 hours to get to the Moon so we waited until the craft was in orbit and then we had a mad rush to get from Launch Control to Mission Control (in Houston, Texas).
The commission could rush through a formal positive opinion in six months (Iceland already applies two-thirds of EU laws).
All this took place amid a rush to invest in Latin American gold and silver mines, puffed by (among others) the young Benjamin Disraeli.
Even before Sept. 11 set off a rush of antiterror technology research, Sandia and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) had the zany idea of using honeybees to stand in for humans when collecting traces of bioweapons and explosives.
Already a rush of party members and relatives of politicians have won jobs in some ministries (see article).
Although this report is focusing on Q3, which is before the big consumer electronics push for Christmas TV sales (and before the Super Bowl rush in the U.S.), it does paint a picture of growth potential for 3D TVs.
For Victoria Fletcher (13), Rush Lyons (14), Thomas Shields (13) and their teammates, the experience of designing a product and marketing it to judges not only reinforced the value of teamwork, but demonstrated the applications that science and math can have on Earth and beyond.
Driving imposes a heavier burden of externalities when it is done at rush hour (it adds to delays and is less energy-efficient) so such journeys ought to cost a driver more.
Along with international- and emerging-market stocks, our global portfolio includes allocations to gold and commodities, which tend to have low correlations to the US dollar and help to diversify portfolios (for more on gold as a diversifier, please read blog post: The New Gold Rush?).
Winnick's overnight wealth (which this magazine helped publicize in its issue of Apr. 19, 1999) attracted a gold rush of fiber dealsters.
The first explosion tore through the second carriage of a train at 0756 (0356GMT), as it stood at central Lubyanka station waiting for morning rush hour commuters to board.
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