In the current deficit-reduction talks led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the Medicare cuts under discussion fall into the modest "waste, fraud and abuse" category that no one opposes.
Royal Caribbean's pledge to "not abandon Haiti now they need us most" might raise eyebrows in other destinations: such as Grenada, abandoned in the late 1990s for requesting a modest waste management levy, or conversely Alaska, who found it difficult to keep cruise liners away despite a referendum seeking to curb their effects on unspoilt waters.
Malcolm Williams, a director of the UK Zero Waste Alliance, is concerned that increased incineration capacity may lead Europe to miss what he deems are already modest waste-reduction targets for 2020.
Australia's dismal track record in relation to managing our own modest stockpile of radioactive waste is also hardly cause for confidence in the commission's global ambition.
Cutting waste even by modest amounts would also feed millions, the authors found: between one-third and a half of the viable crops and food produced from them around the world are wasted, in the developing world usually because of a lack of infrastructure such as refrigerated transport, and in the rich world because of wasteful habits.
"You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?" Modest Mouse, which plays at the Capitol Theatre on Oct. 13-14, remains a testament to the peculiar influence MTV wielded not so long ago — the network might reclaim such authority by embracing indie's current outsized characters, like Father John Misty or St . Vincent(or, at least, by occasionally airing their music videos).
Her father was a gambler and wasted his family's modest income.
Others include timber processing wastes, urban waste wood, landfill methane, and modest amounts of agriculture residues.
For their part, the Tories believe that rising anger among taxpayers over poor value for money means that modest tax cuts funded by an attack on waste will be both credible and attractive.
Use of microbial enzymes for hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass has several merits compared to thermochemical pretreatment such as low energy inputs, modest hardware demands, no generation of environment damaging waste products, and absence of hazardous chemicals.
Staples runs a similar recycling program to Best Buy, but it has a more modest goal of recycling 40m pounds of e-waste by 2020.
