Sentences with phrase «swamped new»

The research is important because the lead author is Kerry Emanuel, the M.I.T. climate scientist who in the 1980's foresaw a rise in hurricane intensity in a human - warmed world and in 2005, just a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, asserted in a Nature paper that he had found statistical evidence linking rising hurricane energy and warming.
Sounds like you're one of the smart ones who would have ignored the evacuation orders before Katrina swamped New Orleans.
If all the ice in Greenland were to melt in coming decades (an unlikely scenario), it would raise sea levels by seven meters (more than 20 feet)-- enough to swamp New Orleans, Florida's coast, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, among other low - lying lands.
Meanwhile, watching the floodwaters swamp New York, some observers began to make a relatively simple but resonant observation.
Having too many beta readers swamps the new writer with advice, and that isn't always helpful.
A recurrence of Superstorm Sandy — which barrelled head - on into the Atlantic coast, swamping New York City and large parts of New Jersey — is less likely under climate change, new research suggests.

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But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.
The 200 - year - old business went into compulsory liquidation at 0600 GMT after costly contract delays and a slump in new business left it swamped by debt and pensions liabilities of at least 2.2 billion pounds ($ 3 billion).
AOL made its name by mailing out free account - activation CDs to pretty much every residence in the United States, from Louisiana swamp shacks to New Jersey McMansions.
Ritholtz has devised two indexes — the «Oligarch Index» that contains what he deems Trump - friendly companies, such as Colony Capital, CoreCivic, ExxonMobil, and Goldman Sachs — and the «Drain the Swamp Index,» which includes the New York Times, GM, Time Warner, and Amazon, among others.
Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.
Congress has not found a way to handle this new means of communication, which swamped congresspersons with 80,000,000 email messages during the past year.
The story leaves us with a new form of Christianity, ostensibly born from the «swamp» of Japan, but actually born in the deserts of the ancient Near East: Gnosticism.
Nancy Pelosi publicly said: «Republicans claim they want to «drain the swamp,» but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions.
I am going to have to work on this concept; my brain is swamped with the new images.
But then one more train of thought: Just as I was swamped in the raging Galilee and the issues it raises, I ran across Scott Stossel's review of Stumbling on Happiness, a book by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology who studies happiness (New York Times, May 7).
«Savnami» and «Savalanche» are epithets Australian winemakers have invented for the tidal wave of New Zealand sauvignon blanc that has swamped the Australian wine market.
Before the world is awake (and sometimes before the sun is, too), New York is so quiet that, if I squint hard enough and completely forget about the sidewalk swamps and drippy air conditioners, it reminds me of the slow - lived serenity of Japan.
Garlits arrived early at the New Jersey drag strip, began tinkering with the latest of his creations, which he calls The Swamp Rat, and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of the curious.
They had to figure out the promotional schedule, introduce new concessions, plan a team - building exercise for the sales team... really, they were swamped.
Maggie: I've been swamped today and haven't had a chance to check the rules so I'll take the lazy way out and ask — is the «seconds on fruit / veg for hungry kids» thing actually required by the new rules or just the custom of most schools?
For busy moms — and show me a mom who isn't swamped with responsibility — the key is finding something that's going to kick - start a healthy new lifestyle and then taking it from there.
He'd visit Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey and Chincoteague in Virginia, among others.
And if Cuomo pursues a presidential bid in 2020, as many have suggested, surely opposition researchers will attempt to use Percoco to paint Cuomo's New York as a swamp.
Students of Orwell, perhaps, they called their group New Yorkers Against Corruption, and cynically claimed to care deeply about dredging a swamp that makes Washington look pristine.
Outside organizations could have an even greater effect under the new rules, post-Citizens United, and Long's aggressive focus on a conservative interpretation of the Constitution — she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas — could, perhaps, prove attractive to wealthy conservatives, who have swamped Democrats in contributing to super PACs this cycle.
In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.
-- TENNEY»S TRUMP FERVOR — New York Times» Lisa W. Foderaro: «The message last month sounded as if it came directly from a Donald J. Trump campaign speech, with references to draining the swamp and calls for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton and James B. Comey, among others.
Immigration has swamped schools, leaving the taxpayer needing to find places «equivalent to building 27 new average - sized secondary schools or 100 new primary schools».
In 2011 - 12, he enjoyed himself greatly writing about first - class air travel, spas and foie gras, with the late - great How We Live group, before plunging headfirst into the fetid swamp of New York state politics, and the world of Albany...
New Yorkers opposed to gay marriage are being swamped by younger people who support it, while polls seem to show a new tactic by advocates is working in the suburbs and upstate, the more conservative region where the issue will be won or loNew Yorkers opposed to gay marriage are being swamped by younger people who support it, while polls seem to show a new tactic by advocates is working in the suburbs and upstate, the more conservative region where the issue will be won or lonew tactic by advocates is working in the suburbs and upstate, the more conservative region where the issue will be won or lost.
New seedling introductions are basswood, eastern ninebark, shagbark hickory, winterberry holly, pin oak, swamp white oak, northern pecan, and American larch.
In New York City, the storm surge hit 14 feet, swamping the city's subway and mass transit system and flooding low - lying communities from Staten Island to the Rockaways.
Four years ago, New York's big problems were the budget and the Legislature's intransigence; a crusading attorney general rode into the governor's office brandishing an overwhelming margin of victory and promising to drain the Albany swamp.
Gov. Cuomo last week waded hip - deep into New York's fetid education - standards swamp — picking a fight he must win if the state is ever to have real teacher accountability.
Because those branches have been swamped with phone calls, the AAA of Western New York offered to send people to the area to assist with the...
Mulgrew urges next mayor to «drain the swamp» of DOE bureaucracy, reduce paperwork burden on teachers and administrators, find new ways to engage parents
New research suggests rising oceans could swamp the world's coasts by the end of the century — sooner than previously anticipated
The areas with the least roads correspond to inaccessible landscapes or places where there is little economic motive to build them: for example, the sand hills of Nevada, the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and California, the swamps of southern Florida and the steep slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
While some blame new technology for swamping us with information, Web - science researcher Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom believes it can help us cope with information overload.
Such projects are controversial since diverting the river to protect New Orleans would destroy property and swamp local fisheries with sediment.
The new report says that pugmarks fall short as a counting tool because they are drawn from an «unknown fraction» of the 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat in India and are difficult to locate in some terrain, including hard or rocky soil as well as mangrove swamps.
Bogs, swamps and mires help keep 500 billion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, so preserving peatlands is emerging as a new priority
Online cognoscenti call this the Slashdot effect, after the popular technology site known for linking to interesting new online files and instantly swamping their servers.
Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.
The sea is set to rise a metre or more by the end of this century, swamping much vital intrastructure and displacing hundreds of millions of people (New Scientist, 1 July 2009, p 28).
Traveling out of New Orleans on historic Esplanade Avenue, we journey across the bayou to embark on a classic Louisiana swamp cruise — with color commentary provided by our hospitable captain.
One of those scientists is Philip Orton, an ocean engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 people, in the New York City metropolitan area, that Sandy swamped under eight feet of salt water.
New research has found that green turtles hatching en masse from their nests «swamp» predators, allowing more individuals to reach the safety of the sea.
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