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...true. It is also true that not enough money will reach companies to have much impact on their hiring this year. No one knows whether the programs will work. Since they are untested, particularly in an economy this large that is destroying itself this fast, trying to assess their chances of success is as tough as making a winning wager on which dog team will win the Iditarod...
...implications for Cambridge, it is fundamentally a Belmont decision.” Councilor Craig A. Kelley proposed two amendments to the resolution in an effort to secure some Cambridge input in the matter. He requested a joint meeting of the Cambridge and Belmont Conservation Committees—which will assess the project from an environmental perspective—and called for the Belmont City Manager to report back to the City Council on any decisions on the issue. —Staff writer Danella H. Debel can be reached at debel@fas.harvard.edu...
...unproven and untested missile defense systems but neglected to address the simple fact that the M16 and M4 rifles we issue our soldiers do not function well in the sandy or dusty conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan. As such, we call upon Carter and his colleagues to re-assess the strategic situation at hand and adjust our weapons procurement policy to the reality of the present day. Finally, we are also appreciative of the fact that Carter’s appointment to the top spot at the Pentagon’s procurement division breaks a long-standing tradition of appointing...
...block walk along stretches of the elevated train in Brooklyn, Friedkin and D’Antoni “spitballed” the idea of a very different car chase, in which a driver pursued a man in a metro car.When the two went to the transit authority to assess the plausibility of this dream, the Movie God stepped in yet again. Asking for permission to film a train crash in an elevated train system that in over half a century had never seen an accident, the two were gravely told by the supervisor that allowing it would lose...
...face of it, the idea of cost-benefit analysis seems like a relatively uncontroversial idea. It seems reasonable to assess, for instance, whether improvements in public health are significant enough to justify the financial costs imposed on polluters to curb the emission of harmful particles into the air. Reasonable, that is, until you start to fashion formulas for deciding just how costs and benefits should be measured...