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...With thousands of restive homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their property is worth and with no relief in sight, the government has decided on drastic action. Last week, Hong Kong's secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands, Michael Suen, laid out a new policy aimed at "restoring the public's confidence in the property market." Interestingly, the government has decided the best way to do that is to take itself out of the game, at least temporarily. Construction of state-subsidized apartments, except those for low-income families, will be suspended indefinitely starting next January and government land...
...proposals for renovation, which museum administrators plan to give to the provost’s office by the end of December, include a drastic plan to consolidate the collections of three of Harvard’s museums—the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Sackler—in a single building...
...Cohn says these renovations would be as expensive as the more drastic change and would cause “frustration at doing something for the Fogg that does not enlarge its resources...
Educators in Cambridge have joined the opposition to Question 2, saying schools would have to be restructured if it passed. And that, they say, would have potentially disastrous effects in a system already in turmoil over drastic elementary school mergers planned for next year...
...Sabena's finances were chronically weak even before the gigantic Airbus bills. Reutlinger left Sabena to take over Swissair's French airline operations in August 2000. Veteran Lufthansa executive Christoph Müller took over as Sabena CEO and immediately realized the danger. Within a month he outlined a drastic restructuring plan, dubbed Blue Sky. "You didn't need to be a rocket scientist" to know Sabena was in serious trouble, Müller says. "You just needed to read the balance sheet." The Airbus deal in particular saddled Sabena with impossible red ink. Müller points out that...