“Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?” Would BeNaturalEconomyLandDevelopmentGood ThingsDecadesGasBubblesDisputesFrenzyNatural GasDrilling Author:Jeff Goodell
“For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or so, sustainable development will constitute one of the biggest opportunities in the history of commerce. And innovation will be the name of the game.” BelieveNextOpportunityGamesNamesClearDevelopmentInnovationEnvironmentalDecadesDisasterSustainabilityCommerceEcologicalSustainable Development Book:Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World
“Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.” NeedsHas BeensTodaySpaceDevelopmentGreenIllDecadesLocalsNeighborhoodVistasOpen Spaces Author:Al Gore
“The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.” YearsWellsLittlesProblemLastsOpportunityTermWealthAttentionParticularDevelopmentDeservePaidEastDecadesPrioritiesRussiaRegionsSignificanceTerritoryFuture Development Author:Vladimir Putin
“Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.” IfsHas BeensTwoPastPracticeDemocracyAcceptanceDevelopmentDecadesSignificantIdeologyCommunismCollapseRhetoricLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.” PeopleYearsSaidLastsLanguageDevelopmentReturnCouplePhilosopherSentencesDecadesMeaning Of Life Author:David E. Cooper
“[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.” Has BeensImportantStatesBigsMemoriesUnitedRoomsUnited StatesDevelopmentDecadesRussiaDepartmentNegotiationPillarsStandoffs Author:Rachel Maddow
“Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.” PeopleHas BeensTwoImportantCareLastsPoliticsPolicyDevelopmentExerciseDon't CareScaryDecadesBrilliantImpressionStatementsWorriedIrrationalUnpredictableKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanDiplomaticBlackmailPeninsulas Author:Andrei Lankov