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...production down, and to offer tax breaks to companies that do the same. But such measures would have to get past a hostile Congress. Americans proved during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that they can get interested in energy efficiency when prices shoot up; if anything can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, it is the free market. Unfortunately, the price of oil in constant dollars is close to what it was in the car-happy 1950s, and prices are likely to keep falling...
...consent, the Ocean Park series, which he began in 1967. Ocean Park is part of Santa Monica, the beachside suburb of Los Angeles where he had his studio. From its high crystalline light, its big calm planes of sea and sky, its cuts and interlacings of highway divider and curb and gable and yellow sand, Diebenkorn produced a marvelous synthesis that, though prolonged through more than 140 large canvases, had very few weak moments...
...need to curb the power of the delinquent to control the student government at this school," said bill sponsor Noah Z. Seton...
Until the Daily's independence is true and complete, we agree with you that the ISU student newspaper should be subject to laws intended to curb government secrecy and state-subsidized competition. --Michael G. Gartner, Editor and Co-owner, the Daily Tribune; Institute of Politics Fellow, 1994 --Gary G. Gerlach, Publisher and Co-owner, The Daily Tribune; J.D. 1970, M.P.A...
...followed high-tech stocks as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would be able to charge the sender before accepting the mail (or to forgive the fee, so that access is not restricted to the wealthy alone). Here Dyson's "love [of] markets" reveals itself yet again: her descriptions...