Challenges In The News 09/19/08

The past weekend’s Travelers was the first tournament of golf’s great challenge – trying to prove there is sustainable life on a planet with no Tiger Woods.

Lockheed, meanwhile, is challenging the Navy contract awarded to Northrop for the unmanned planes, saying that its own proposed aircraft was less expensive. The GAO has 100 days to deny or sustain the challenge. Last year, the GAO received more than 1,411 such complaints and determined that 91 were valid. No one has challenged Northrop’s other recent major contract, awarded by the Navy last fall and potentially worth tens of billions of dollars.

For the 5,700-church denomination, the challenge is protecting its identity as a home to modern and inclusive theology, a historically white denomination with some pastors who favor black liberation theology.

Also unclear, analysts said, is whether Senior Gen. Than Shwe maintains his near-monolopy on power or is facing factional challenges.

He can even put them on the night before a storm and be ready to go the next morning. It won’t be quite as challenging to make it up the driveway, but maybe he can pretend he’s a superhero with magic powers.

“We’re always concerned when a high level of contaminants is found in a species,” said Alex Pitts, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. PBDEs “are showing up everywhere and the are more concentrated in urban areas, which is challenging for urban wildlife.”

This month, you take on challenges that others are afraid to tackle, and you are rewarded.

Still, ferreting out potentially hazardous substances can be a challenge.

Those improvement efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA.

She has a right to make whatever decision he makes. Clinton’s challenge in the final weeks is to convince party leaders she remains a viable candidate, and the campaign sought to do that Wednesday.

To meet soaring worldwide demand for food and energy crops, millions of acres of land are being brought into production. To address the challenge, the new bill would expand and strengthen the Department of Agriculture’s conservation initiatives that reward farmers and ranchers for their sound conservation practices.