Word: austria
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...alternative development strategies available to an economy using quantitative economic models, whose size and sophistication were limited only by the computing capacity then available,” said T.N. Srinivasan, an economics professor at Yale who worked with Manne at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis in Vienna, Austria. In his later years, Manne created models of the economic cost of global warming and tried to analyze how countries could reduce emissions at the lowest cost.After his long career at Stanford, Manne retired in 1992, staying on as professor emeritus. Over the course of his career, he published seven...
...talked to some old alumni, and they were astonished” with the administration’s reaction, says Drew Austria, the president of the Asian Student Union at UVa. In particular, Austria says they were particularly impressed by Casteen’s Rotunda speech...
...It’s not a problem with the school, but with the few who are committing these acts,” Austria says. “It’s not that the university is racist...
...Nowhere in the EU is rejection of Turkish membership as strong as it is in Austria, where polls find between 80 and 90% of voters opposed. An incendiary campaign by the far-right Freedom Party played a role in stoking that opposition, as did atavistic memories of the Ottoman Turk army at the gates of Vienna in 1683. The Austrian government channeled that sentiment by opposing the idea that the talks, expected to last at least nine years, would be premised on the "shared objective" of "accession." Vienna wanted language that could have allowed talks to end in something less...
...Turkey. And French president Jacques Chirac, who says he favors Turkish membership, has pressed through a constitutional amendment demanding a referendum in France to approve any new member of the EU. An editorial in Germany's centrist Sueddeutsche Zeitung sensed a whiff of hypocrisy in the pressure on Austria to kick the ball forward again. "The Austrian government deserves merit for speaking openly what a majority of the citizens think: that a promise of accession will not be made good," the paper wrote. Maybe not, but much can change in ten years, and now, at least, the talks are open...