'Energy independence' would be at odds with this objective.

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One is that we really do now as a nation need to take energy security seriously as a foreign policy issue and prioritize that objective relative to other foreign policy goals that we have.

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Now, that same dedication to such a short-sighted, tactical objective is evidently precluding effective action to redress America's energy insecurity.

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To achieve this modest objective the report promulgates several recommendations for the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate the discovery, development and deployment of advanced energy technologies.

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All these activities are geared to one objective: to expand Red Bull's presence amid a deluge of new energy drinks being introduced by upstarts and beverage behemoths like Pepsi and Coke.

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The objective was to examine the acute effects of sedentary video game play on various components of energy balance.

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Here, the objective is to develop middleware for research projects in the biological sciences, earth observation and high-energy physics.

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