With skills practised over the course of almost four decades here, he manoeuvres his horse to round up a group of recalcitrant, russet-coloured calves, heading off their meanderings with an authoritative click of his tongue.

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There, you are going to find a group of people with a remarkably upbeat and successful approach to job-hunting, 190 people and one horse.

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But discussions within such a smaller group would allow government leaders to confront the realities of climate change and engage in direct horse-trading without the static of thousands of other voices desiring to load their issues into the deal.

CNN: Quicker fix for climate change

The potential perils of Mr. Catsimatidis's approach were on display earlier this month when he brought up his ideas for tweaking, but not abolishing, the Central Park carriage-horse industry in front of a crowd of animal-rights activists at a forum sponsored by the group leading the charge to eliminate it.

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