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...they can, the new system could put an end to reckless French government spending that has led to a fivefold increase in the national debt to €1.1 trillion over the past 25 years. "It signals a big shakeup," says Jean-Raphael Alventosa, a budget expert at the Cour des Comptes, the national accounting office, which will get more clout. Even France's love affair with hugely expensive - but glorious - infrastructure projects is changing: the Millau viaduct, the world's highest road bridge that opened last year, was entirely financed by the private company that built it. In the past...
...frustrated by what he calls the "socialist mentality still prevalent" among many Bulgarians. "Things like privatization and structural reforms are sometimes easier than the most fundamental change - getting people to start thinking in market- economy terms, to stop expecting the government to take care of them." Veltchev has the cour-age of his convictions, but some socialist-era habits die hard. He would never, he says, implement a policy just to court popular approval, but he concedes that "it would be wrong to pretend that any politician could survive with-out resorting to minor populist measures at times." How would...
...would not engage the faculty in academic planning if the COUR, the Overseers and Corporation were against a substantial fundraising effort at this point,” Hyman says...
...concept of a targeted, University-wide campaign was actually one of three discussed with the deans, Corporation and COUR. In addition to the across-the-board campaign mirroring Rudenstine’s effort, the option of letting the schools conduct their own campaigns was considered...
Hyman says the campaign model that COUR and other leaders have “converged on” would be a middle ground...