Purchase
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Fields of endeavor that use “science” in their titles tend to be those that get masses of people emotionally involved and in which crackpots seem to have some
purchase
on public opinion.
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It means reduce your carbon dioxide emissions with the full range of choices that you make, and then
purchase
or acquire offsets for the remainder that you have not completely reduced.
On average, a household's
purchase
of clothing per year requires 1,000 bathtubs of water to produce.
In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and devout younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the
purchase
of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.
This is a perfect idea of thrift; you use what you need, you don't actually
purchase
anything, so you save money.
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