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...that Abdullah's critics aren't trying. Yes, farmer's incomes have increased, they say, but so has the cost of living, particularly in urban areas. Furthermore, a U.S. recession could upset Malaysia's export-led economy. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Indian populations are speaking out against a national affirmative-action plan that favors Malays in everything from education to government contracts. Indians, who are Malaysia's poorest ethnicity, are so frustrated that they have marched by the thousands in Kuala Lumpur in recent months. "We respected [the National Front] for a long time, but they haven't helped...
...outpacing human engineering. Twice the earthworks have been breached - most recently on Jan. 4 - flooding more houses. On Nov. 22, 2006, the weight of the soil ruptured a natural-gas pipeline, causing a massive fireball that incinerated 13 workers. According to an International Monetary Fund estimate, Lusi has already cost Indonesia $3.7 billion in damage and damage control. And things are likely to get worse. As mud spews up from the ground, the area around the eruption is gradually sinking. Eventually, Porong could become a giant sucking wound in the Earth...
...possible because of the restrictions the CEB currently faces. Harvard’s budget for student life is significantly lower than those of its peer institutions, and the CEB is dealing with a smaller cash wad than its comparable organizations at schools like Brown and Yale are. The cost of booking a big-name artist can run to over $100,000, and if the CEB allocated that much to Yardfest, it couldn’t put on events like Camp Harvard, the Harvard-Yale pep rally, and the provocatively titled “Pimp Your Stein Club...
...people live in poverty, government subsidies have helped keep the prices of some items down. Islamabad spends some $2 billion on fuel subsidies, for instance. Sadly for ordinary Pakistanis and for the incoming government, the country's rapidly worsening fiscal deficit will make it harder to keep underwriting those costs. Continuing the subsidies will only worsen the country's budgetary woes. But if the government passes on the true cost of gas, the resulting increase will fuel inflation even more...
...successful council candidate, and close to a third of the budget of the highest-spending. Kelley hypothesized that the lower expenditures by school committee candidates reflect a relatively small, passionate constituency of parents, compared to the larger number of Cantabrigians, who participate in council elections. Councillors said their high costs were due to the difficulty of informing voters of their candidacy, and spent much of their money on flyers, yard signs and stickers. For example, Councillor Henrietta C. Davis, who graduated from the Kennedy School in 1997, said she prints her own newsletter, which she distributes to 6,000 residents...