Unless that trend is reversed quickly, he and others contend, the world will never meet the U.N. goal of keeping an increase in average global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
Even into 1991, the Veneto Equipe team turned to the LC2 to contend the World Sportscar Championship.
Had Britain's diplomatic and naval strategy been handled more skillfully during these years, Owen contends, the carnage of World War I might have been prevented altogether.
China has rounded up five hundred or so members of a fringe Christian group known as the Church of the Almighty God, which contends that the world will end on Friday.
By Evan Osnos December 19 , 2012China has rounded up five hundred or so members of a fringe Christian group known as the Church of the Almighty God, which contends that the world will end on Friday.
*** In Immortal Egypt (BBC2) the engaging and highly enthusiastic Professor Joann Fletcher explored what she contends is the "world's greatest civilisation", beginning well before anyone thought to commemorate himself by throwing up a pyramid.
In her article, "A giant that may eat us", she contends that the world's leading social media site is exerting both an "increasing domination of internet advertising revenue and control of a significant part of a critical distribution platform".
The dictator believed, Kotkin contends, that the world's most powerful countries "achieved and maintained their great-power status by mastery of a set of modern attributes: mass production, mass consumption, mass culture, mass politics". If the Soviet Union failed to keep up with modern nations like Britain and Germany, it risked perpetual "backwardness" and subordination.
In a rare inside look at the auditing firms that inspect overseas factories to see whether they are sweatshops, an M.I.T. professor contends that the world's largest factory-monitoring firm does a shoddy job and overlooks many safety and wage violations.
