To solve these problems, it helps to have two instruments to hand: a carbon tax to discourage pollution directly, and subsidies or other incentives to encourage innovation around the cleaner input.

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Mr. Phillips was on hand to teach about the instruments and keep them in shape.

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The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand gestures and various musical instruments while praying for the spiritual and moral well-being of the people, for purification and peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil spirits or to invoke the blessing of various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities and rinpoches.

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They range from exquisite hand-woven carpets to simple instruments of daily life - a traditional water pipe and a pitchfork.

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On the other hand, the proliferation of credit through new instruments and disintermediation has made the financial system more disorderly than ever.

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But even if it is, the whole idea raises that interesting question and suggests, to me at least, a better way to deal with the problem than weird-looking instruments of torture that enforce certain postures and hand gestures.

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At their concerts on Sunday, the students showed what Mr. Haas and the instruments had taught them about Rameau, playing more slowly, using smaller hand movements, listening to themselves.

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Chanting by women and men (cantadoras and chureadores) blends with acoustic instruments, handcrafted using local materials: palm-wood Marimbas, wooden and leather bass and hand drums, and bamboo and seed rattles.

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Each violin-maker constructs from three to six instruments per year, shaping and assembling more than 70 pieces of wood around an inner mould by hand, according to the different acoustic response of each piece.

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