Word: dollarization
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...staff use. The moves are among $77 million in cuts geared towards helping the Faculty of Arts and Sciences close a $220 million annual budget deficit. Beth S. Brainard, a spokeswoman for Harvard College Library, said that while she could not discuss the specific “big-time dollar amounts” saved by the Widener Café’s closing, she said that “it is a substantial amount.” She noted that the Widener Café cutbacks are part of HCL’s larger budget reduction plan and that...
...money-saving energy conservation strategies: temperature set-point changes, motion-sensing light switches, light bulb change-outs, and solar panel installations, among others. By lowering the winter heating set-point to 68° and raising the summer cooling set-point to 75°, the FAS will reduce its multimillion-dollar heating and cooling budget by an estimated 3 percent annually. This change has the added benefit of reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCDE) annually. FAS will continue to pursue such energy conservation strategies. As part of this process, an audit...
...voted to allocate $3,000 of the surplus money in its Operations Fund to house student staffers for the UC’s recently-announced capital campaign, which aims to raise funds to purchase a student community center. At present, talks on this front have focused on the multimillion dollar 45 Mt. Auburn St. property that currently houses the Democracy Center. According to Senan Ebrahim ’12, the UC hired four students—Abel Acuna ’11, Dana M. Kase ’11, Christopher G. Kleinhen ’10, and Winnie...
...news flash is "asset." Thanks to the cash-for-clunkers program cooked up in Congress, our 2001 Honda Odyssey may actually be worth something - up to $4,500 if we trade it in on a new, more efficient vehicle. That works out to nearly a dollar per dent, scratch, stain and tear...
...September 6, 1996, something special was on the menu of the landmark Harlem eatery: A white, middle-aged man running for vice president on the Republican ticket was stumping for votes. "This is the color of the new civil-rights revolution - green," shouted Jack Kemp, waving a dollar bill and wearing a sweat-drenched white shirt, as he stood on top of a folding chair...