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[00:01]urgent

[00:02]On the final day of the Copenhagen summit, the U.S.

[00:05]President and other world leaders make an urgent appeal

[00:09]for negotiators to come to some kind of consensus on

[00:13]climate finance and emissions reductions.

[00:19]hasty

[00:21]Earlier in the week, the Idaho senator called a hasty

[00:25]press conference on the streets of Boise to declare once

[00:29]again: "I am not gay; I never have been gay."

[00:35]proportion

[00:37]About 70 percent of these are in dollar-denominated

[00:40]securities, and a large proportion of these are in U.S.

[00:44]government bonds.

[00:47]percentage

[00:48]In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a

[00:51]percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of

[00:55]last year.

[00:58]ratio

[01:00]Never in my lifetime (I was 27) had public service had

[01:04]such allure (the ratio of applicants to available positions

[01:09]in the administration was rumored to be a hundred to one.

[01:16]reckon

[01:18]In science generally, however, the nineteenth century

[01:22]must be reckoned as the crucial period for this change in

[01:26]the structure of science.

[01:29]assess

[01:31]Sternberg notes that traditional tests best assess

[01:35]analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity

[01:39]and practical knowledge.