"You don't ruin expensive landscaping to put down water-hogging grass so your kids can play on a busy street, " I answer.

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It's a matter of how much water to put down and how much blade: how chewed up it is.

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Sources of doubt that have seemed plausible in the past, such as a mismatch between temperatures measured by satellites and temperatures measured at the surface, and doubts about the additional warming that can be put down to water vapour, have been in large part resolved, though more work is needed.

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Republicans blocked that because they want to water down Wall Street reforms, reforms that were put in place to help prevent the kind of financial crisis that almost tipped the global economy into a depression.

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Then he slowly put the bottle down on the table and reached for the tonic water.

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He could run a hose down from the house, and, yes, he had put a hot-water line through the basement out to the back, and, in the dead of winter, with his 50 amp heater running and a drain in the middle of the concrete floor, he could wash his MG convertible, dreaming of tomorrow and his escape.

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He couldn't believe how strong she felt, how much pressure she put on his wrists when, with a jolt, she pulled his rod tip almost down into the water.

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