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availability entrepreneur

availability entrepreneur
 n.— «Today’s interpreters of the weather are what social scientists call availability entrepreneurs: the activists, journalists and publicity-savvy scientists who selectively monitor the globe looking for newsworthy evidence of a new form of sinfulness, burning fossil fuels.» —“In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm” by John Tierney New York Times Jan. 1, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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