Running an AC unit without a low-pressure cutoff switch when it's colder than about 60 degrees might damage it, says Troy Gregory, president of Standard Heating and Air Conditioning.

WSJ: Don't Wait to Service AC Units

Mr. Moffat said he built the site to pressure Facebook to switch its account settings so that such updates are private by default and wouldn't be accessible to developers like himself.

WSJ: Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues

ANC's economic thinking is not, as is often thought, the story of an overnight switch, under foreign pressure, from socialist ideology to a more market-friendly approach.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

As title after title moves to a free-to-play model, the latest big game to make the switch being Team Fortress 2, the pressure is mounting for an old gaming giant to change up their business model a bit.

FORBES: World of Warcraft Now Free Until Level 20

But such a scenario would deprive a winner of much of his legitimacy and there may be pressure on the members of the electoral college to switch their vote to the popular winner when they meet in their state capitals in mid-December.

BBC: Bush and Cheney

The fact that some of its competitors, most notably Wendy's and KFC, have already begun the switch without too much incident places even more pressure on McDonald's.

FORBES: McDonald's Arches Still Golden

It is also why monetary "activists" like the idea of a switch, because it would put the Bank under pressure to do more to stimulate growth right now.

BBC: A new target for the Bank of England?

The expanding world population and the on-going switch towards consumption of meat and dairy produce as incomes rise are already putting pressure on freshwater supplies, which increased growing of biofuel crops could exacerbate.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | UN warns on impacts of biofuels