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[00:01]proclaim

[00:03]During the panel discussions at the World Economic

[00:05]Forum, participants didn't hesitate to proclaim that

[00:10]tougher bank regulations were (or weren't) needed.

[00:15]decline

[00:16]Depending on the comments received, the editor would

[00:20]accept the paper for publication or decline it.

[00:25]descend

[00:26]A more risk-aware response might be: "to get to the

[00:30]summit, and then descend successfully." Sometimes, we

[00:33]are so focused on one objective-to the exclusion of all

[00:37]else-that we neglect the obvious.

[00:43]diminish

[00:44]A warm climate fosters crops better than a cold one,

[00:48]but as the globe continues to warm, benefits diminish.

[00:53]Hotter climes will eventually diminish crop yields worldwide.

[01:00]appliance

[01:02]There are now fairly simple ways to barter for home

[01:05]appliances, video games, clothes, even car leases and the

[01:11]services of accountants and hair dressers.

[01:16]apparatus

[01:18]Physicists last week were watching with interest a

[01:21]complicated apparatus parked near a nuclear reactor at

[01:26]Hanford, Washington.