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  • With this birth, Lauren had an iPod Touch app called Contraction Master that helped her measure the time between contractions as she started to go into labor.

    Lee Stranahan: My Son Was Born On Twitter 2010

  • Just as in the realm of consumer pressure, it is up to us how high a profile a plan such as Contraction and Convergence has in the questions we raise for political candidates.

    Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005

  • Just as in the realm of consumer pressure, it is up to us how high a profile a plan such as Contraction and Convergence has in the questions we raise for political candidates.

    Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005

  • (NB: We could also use the principle called Contraction:

    Curry's Paradox Beall, JC 2008

  • Advocate for personal carbon entitlements within an equitable, fair shares global framework, such as Contraction and Convergence.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Advocate for personal carbon entitlements within an equitable, fair shares global framework, such as Contraction and Convergence.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • Advocate for personal carbon entitlements within an equitable, fair shares global framework, such as Contraction and Convergence.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • I'm going to ponder this idea more (the report doesn't make for easy Monday-morning reading), but my initial reaction to the GDR concept is positive - something worth serious consideration alongside competing schemes such as Contraction &

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • "There was maintained a Solemnity called a Contraction a little before the Consummation of a marriage was allowed of.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • ÂThis time he's excited about the idea that the United States and other developed countries are experiencing, not a Great Recession, but a "Great Contraction."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future? RJ 2011

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