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That's a deal worth taking: a two-cent-per gallon increase in gasoline prices each year between now and 2030, according to an EPA report, in return for deep reductions in gasoline consumption. But with gasoline at $4 a gallon and rising, this was a terrible time to ask panicky voters to think about such a deal. And the Republican leaders were only too happy to exploit the high cost of energy. A G.O.P. strategy memo made public by Democratic leader Harry Reid summarized it this way: "The goal is for a theme (example: climate bill equals higher...
...wonderful part of my education that was not part of the Harvard syllabus and required courses,” Goetze said. “And when I finished at Harvard, I didn’t owe Harvard a single cent...
...some established agents have expressed their discontent at the combine’s ten per cent tariff on their profits, charging that the tax amounts to confiscation. In most cases, however, the complaint is unsound, as it overlooks the fact that the Agency provides them with legal business addresses--something which their rooms in tax-exempt University property failed to give them...
...stands for.“It obfuscates the relationship between student and college to the point where it hurts recruiting,” Gillis said. He added that unbeknownst to many, the process for this change in username extensions “doesn’t cost a cent.”Gillis also pointed out that because Harvard Extension school students also use the “@fas” ending, it is difficult to distinguish between these students and those of the College.Kidd agreed that making a distinction between the two schools would be beneficial...
...into weak American dollars. Britain makes the conversion easier by reducing it to a simple ratio, but there’s nothing more depressing than having to double amounts that already border on the expensive. The typical poor college student begrudgingly gnaws away for months at stacks of ten-cent ramen noodles; said student would find himself drowning in a $9.50 chicken ramen bowl—the cheapest soup on the menu. This menu reads: “All dishes at Wagamama are cooked to order and then served immediately to your table. This means that individual selections of your...