He was talking about preserving the environment, but he could have been describing our national addiction to tax credits, deductions, and exclusions.

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Given where I came into this article, there's an irony here in that we're talking about lawyers saving the environment from lawyers.

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With opposition rising to new funding requests, the institution started talking about promoting markets and improving the environment.

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Lastly, when I am talking about our environment as the basis for our hopes, our shared life in common, I believe that the only paradigm for our development in these conditions, despite any scepticism we may have, is freedom and the sovereignty of the individual.

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For more than two years, the federal energy and environment ministers have been talking with provincial counterparts about how to reduce emissions to meet the Kyoto target (of 6% below 1990 levels).

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If we are talking about a hazardous environment such as a nuclear power plant, the damage caused by a single, un-networked sensor could be catastrophic, for two reasons: first the sensor failure itself could be the problem.

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But the IMF has since poured a lot of cold water on this idea, at least in the current global environment - and Mr Osborne more or less stopped talking about it when he came into government.

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