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Municipal property taxes will be going up in Cambridge, mostly to offset increased costs for employing city workers, Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy told local officials at yesterday’s hearing on the city’s budget for fiscal year 2009, which begins July 1. The budget includes provisions for new full-time police officers and a transitional jobs program. “I think there are some major miracles in this budget,” said Cambridge City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72. “I think that the City of Cambridge...
...Beers unveiled the most significant symbol of that transformation in March, when it hosted a dinner in Gaborone, in the atrium of what is now De Beer's main diamond-sorting, -valuing and -aggregating unit. The glass-and-steel construction will employ 500 Batswana and generate a further 2,500 ancillary jobs, particularly in 16 cutting and polishing factories set up around the new plant, and on its sorting benches, which will process a total of 34 million carats a year--22% of world output--or $6 billion in diamonds by 2009. "Our diamonds are for development," Botswana's then...
...emphasized the need for the U.S. to employ the sunshine policy in its foreign activity...
...shamelessly pandering to ugly stereotypes that paint rural voters as religiously minded, gun toting, nativists. Now that tradition can count amongst its ranks another prominent practitioner in the form of Hillary Clinton, who, in the face of increasingly onerous roadblocks in her path to the nomination, has elected to employ the tired old cultural bludgeons which have long misrepresented rural voters as something that they themselves rarely recognize...
...bunnies somehow connect Koons to the external world. For example, the rabbit that appears in so many of his works is a signifier for Playboy, masturbation, and the Easter Bunny, to name just a few. He feels that the layering of cultural meaning that he is able to employ through his use of inflatables makes his work more versatile. “The more chameleon art is, the more future it has because we change,” Koons says. In order for his art to survive, it has to be able to appeal to a large and evolving audience...