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...most expensive megaprojects, said Flyvbjerg, resulting in a 224 percent cost overrun. And construction of the Chunnel, a tunnel connecting Britain and France under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain as a successful project that resulted in a zero percent cost overrun. Jerold S. Kayden, the co-chair of the GSD’s Department of Urban...
...funding it themselves. Some UC representatives raised questions at last night’s meeting about the program’s environmental impact and whether students even prefer reading a physical newspaper to the internet. Maghran said at the meeting that USA Today would recycle extra newspapers and adjust the number of copies provided to meet student demand. She said that paper newspapers remain important in encouraging reading. “People who physically read newspapers read a lot more than online,” she said. “The internet complements the physical newspaper.” Maghran...
...We’re in a different world, we’re not in the Cold War, and we’ve got to adjust to that,” he said...
...receiving threat has turned him into a prime target for opposing defenses and provided the Crimson’s other wideouts with breathing room. While injuries have unexpectedly thrust players like Chrissis and sophomore Levi Richards into the spotlight, the players have been able to adjust to their newfound playing time with a relatively low amount of pressure, in large part thanks to Luft’s consistently exceptional play.“They’re seeing all single coverage because [Luft is] getting doubled up a fair amount of time,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...
...prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed by the recent round of consultation among...