A leaflet on marine litter, entitled Tightening the noose , was also published recently by UNEP.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

But when a noose is thrown around the neck of Roger, nearly everyone in the audience let out very real gasps.

With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening. But, thanks to gas supplies from neighboring Azerbaijan, Georgia has not yet been strangled.

LONDON Once again, Greece seems to have slipped the financial noose. By drawing on its holdings in an International Monetary Fund reserve account, it was able to repay 750 million ( 851 million) ironically to the IMF itself just as the payment was falling due.

Both bubbles have long since burst, and US households are now dealing with post bubble financial devastation namely, underwater assets, record high debt, and profound shortages of savings. At the same time, sharply elevated unemployment and subpar income growth have combined to tighten the noose on over extended consumers.

But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare earth exports it wants to force high tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies. A senior official of a Chinese company has said that, even though rare earth exports have been restricted, Japanese companies can secure their supply by launching operations in China.

Trying to force Iran to back down with steadily mounting sanctions has not produced results. Despite the tightening economic noose the US imposed sanctions on all companies that do business with Iran s central bank, and the European Union plans to impose sanctions on Iranian oil exports by the end of January many nuclear experts now estimate that Iran is very close to enriching enough uranium to build a bomb.