Yet it is a tangled mess, increasingly reliant on regressive taxes, such as the payroll tax, and full of subsidies that benefit rich people while reducing economic efficiency.
Rich had seemed to her such a tower of efficiency and competence, so vigorous and firm a presence that she had always believed, quite unreasonably, that he would survive her.
Clean-tech executives were encouraged by commitments to improve energy efficiency made by India and China, as well as a promise by rich countries to funnel billions to poor ones to pay for green investments.