George David, the boss of United Technologies, a conglomerate that makes air-conditioners, lifts and aircraft engines, among other items, argues that higher fuel and power prices are the only motor needed to drive energy efficiency.But there are still plenty of profitable investment opportunities in energy efficiency, even in the places with the most expensive power.
Statisticians could argue that point.
No one argues that point.
Debating its merits in the Dutch design magazine Items, he argued that Mine Kafon is a prototype that hasn't been tested and refined sufficiently to earn its plaudits (not least of which is a place in MoMA's permanent collection).
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint, arguing that items such as masks, glow sticks and pacifiers were not "drug paraphernalia" as the DEA claimed, because they played no part in the actual ingestion of any drugs.
On Tuesday, Greenwald posted an item on his site arguing that the Bush administration's latest defense of its domestic eavesdropping program is "factually false".
His best-known book, "The Culture of Fear," took apart several stories poised somewhere between urban myth and the lead item on the evening news, arguing that according to statistics, teenage moms aren't really tearing up the fabric of society, road rage is less of a problem than lightning strikes, and gun control, not building more prisons, might be the best way of stopping violent crime.
Fish and Wildlife Service officials dispute that notion, arguing that they have programs to put in place to protect the bears as long as certain budget items are approved.
Norton (2001) sees the process focus as replacing, not complementing, the "increasingly obsolete" inventory/items perspective of biodiversity, arguing that we "will likely move away from the inventory-of-objects approach altogether".
While some argue the component reflects selective enhancement of the attended items (Eimer, 1996), others argue that it reflects a combination of both selective enhancement of the attended items as well as suppression of the unattended items (Hickey, Di Lollo, & McDonald, 2009; Jannati, Gaspar, & McDonald, 2013).
