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...city was prepared to evacuate the center and transport individuals to alternate locations that still had electricity, but city officials decided against such a drastic move after learning that power would be restored relatively quickly, according to O’Connor...
...Drastic measures had to be taken?and fast. On July 8, President Chen Shui-bian summoned 34 of Taiwan's brightest minds to the presidential palace, put them in a conference room, and told them not to come out until they had a plan for fixing the shuddering economy. The best and brightest dutifully took their places around the mahogany table and Premier Chang Chun-hsiung opened the floor to ideas. One came from banker-tycoon Jeffrey Koo, who said the meeting was a big waste of time because there were too many politicians present. Morris Chang, celebrity chairman...
Dartmouth decided to offer deferrals to avoid having to resort to drastic measures—Princeton installed temporary trailers after a similarly large class several years ago—and because college officials believe a year off before college can be beneficial to students, Furstenberg said...
...loudest crashes in the tech collapse came last month, when mighty Cisco Systems found itself with so many of its finished routers and components stuck in warehouses and going nowhere that CEO John Chambers had to take drastic action. He wrote off a record $2.3 billion in inventory, including $900 million in processors and $300 million in semiconductors. Similar liquidations are taking place throughout the electronics industry. And they're providing fresh opportunities for a small band of nimble souls who are profiting not in spite of the tech slump but precisely because...
...That's right. This administration is the grandchild of Reagan's principle that government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Still, President Bush is in a bind, because he can no longer say the science is inconclusive. He can say that drastic actions to curb global warming could hurt the economy. It's certainly going to take a deft hand to steer the economy through the issue of climate change...