The French Death Rattle

So if you think of cancer as a weed, we often can whack the weed away.

I don't smoke weed.

He pulled up the weed and threw it away.

This is some effects that I did for Wig, Rattle and Roll.

I plant the potatoes, I weed the garden, I domesticate the species.

Most of the cars that I drive, if I get up to 80 they start to rattle.

But the Sargasso Sea, the same way it aggregates sargassum weed, actually is pulling in the plastic from throughout the region.

Suppose that you could follow quantitative rules that allowed you to weed out the bad apples, say, the countries likely to perform badly and thus have low stock returns over time. If you weed out most of the bad and the ugly, you end up picking more of the good apples and do better than average.

We can, however, say that PSI is putting proliferators on notice that the international community will not tolerate their activities, and will weed them out from those engaged in legitimate trade.

I feel so strongly that you cannot ask a small farmer to work the land and bend over to grow a hectare of rice, 150,000 times, just to plant a crop and weed it.

According to Dr. Donald Abrams at the University of San Francisco, whom I interviewed for my documentary Weed, the institute has a primary mandate to study substances for potential abuse rather than as a medicine.

In this first of its kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand up comedian that does much more than rattle off one liners it gathers audience feedback and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on?

Israel s reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery. In the Yom Kippur War, as Syrian forces threatened to break the country s defensive lines, Israeli decision makers recoiled even from threatening to use nuclear weapons.

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) used remote sensing and GIS technologies to provide information about the extent and spatial dynamics of leafy spurge, a troublesome weed, in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, among many other applications.

In front of their board, they rattle off exaggerated claims about where the company stands some 80 of annual reports claim that their company is the leader in the market. Unfortunately, this kind of arrogance can lead to complacency and competitive failure.

Not only is paying up front against future benefits efficient and fair, but it also can provide strong incentives for policy makers to weed out bad reforms. If a reform is as good as we think it is, then so is public debt to finance its political acceptability.

One of my favorite (sad) stories concerns consumer credit ratings in Russia. A retail banker once told me that in making credit decisions in Russia, his analysts had faced a shortage of data and had assumed that a criminal record would be one easy way to weed out the bad eggs.

The basic idea was to solicit thousands of predictions from hundreds of experts about the fates of dozens of countries, and then score the predictions for accuracy. We find that the media not only fail to weed out bad ideas, but that they often favor bad ideas, especially when the truth is too messy to be packaged neatly.

Last week, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao. But a new strategic alliance between the two countries is not likely, as it is China that poses the greatest strategic threat to Russia, although many in the Kremlin seem blind to this as they rattle sabers at America and the West.