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...keep the wombat from going the way of the dodo, environmental officials gathered at Epping in late 2007 to brainstorm a radical shift in strategy: they would abandon business as usual by embracing Big Business. The wombat program had operated on a shoestring budget for years, and millions were needed to establish the second colony. "To do this properly, we need the big bucks," said Queensland wildlife-conservation chief Rebecca Williams, sitting at a table outside the ramshackle trailer that serves as the camp's kitchen and makeshift lab. "So think differently...
...cocktails,” Lishanky said. “Alcohol sales have probably been on the rise, if there’s anything to numb the pain.”In addition, every restaurant interviewed reported a strong Valentine’s Day weekend, as diners spent with abandon and tipped generously.“What we’ve seen as a trend overall in restaurants is that people are still doing the special occasions and the Saturday nights,” said Michael J. Mooney, the general manager of Rialto, an Italian restaurant that ranks among the Square?...
...could argue that crispación did have a lasting impact in one arena: the question of ETA. When the group announced a permanent ceasefire in 2006, the PP initially, if tepidly, agreed to support the government's investigation into whether the separatists truly intended to abandon violence. But when the government began tentative talks with the group, the PP reverted to its rhetorical attacks, repeatedly accusing the government of "betrayal" and "negotiating with terrorists" and at one point, refusing for the first time in history to participate in a government-sponsored anti-ETA march. (Read a TIME story about...
...Adams ’10.But as a whole, HRO seemed stiffer than usual. Assistant conductor Hanjay Wang ’11, in his HRO debut, balanced the sound and skillfully led the orchestra through the several tempo changes, but an emphasis on control detracted from the sense of complete abandon that would have fully realized the piece’s excitement.In contrast, the Copland concerto, led by music director James Yannatos, was fluid and evocative. Lowy played with an unfaltering purity of sound, moving seamlessly through all registers of his instrument. His intonation was magnificent, and, unlike most technically advanced...
...Michael P. Jacobson, a former NYC Corrections commissioner and now director of the Vera Institute of Justice, there is a "historical moment" afoot now to abandon what he and others in the field call the failed policy of "mass incarceration" in favor of systematic and adequately funded re-entry efforts. But nowhere, he cautions, is there such a gap between what we should do - what we know to be the right thing to do policywise - and what we actually...