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...furthering of the Allston project. If the university fails to recognize and capitalize on this newfound enthusiasm for construction, it will surrender an opportunity for goodwill and progress with our Allston neighbors. Of course, most importantly, delaying Allston construction jeopardizes the future vitality of our university in favor of extreme spending trepidation...
Bank nationalization is the phrase on everyone's lips at the moment - with Alan Greenspan, Chris Dodd and Paul Krugman among the leading lights of the unlikely coalition in favor of it, and members of the Obama Administration repeatedly denying that it's in their plans. It's a misleading debate, though, given that the U.S. banking system was effectively nationalized on Oct. 13, when then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called the heads of the country's nine biggest banks into his office and told them they couldn't leave the room before agreeing to sell shares to the government...
Plans for year-round offices in both Mumbai and Mexico City, for example, have been scrapped in favor of facilities open only during the summer...
...It’s about understanding a time and a man,” Weishan said. “With everything in history, there’s a cycle. FDR is swinging back into favor, concurrent with this renewed interest...
...voluminous writings, Sunstein (who is not giving interviews before his confirmation hearings) has repeatedly defended the idea of a strong regulatory state. But his critics say that on a case-by-case basis he routinely comes down in favor of applying cost-benefit analysis in a way that would disallow the regulation in question. And they haven't forgotten that in 2001, Sunstein backed George W. Bush's choice of John Graham to head OIRA, though 37 Senate Democrats voted against him. Under Graham and his successor Susan Dudley, OIRA applied cost-benefit analysis stringently, with what their critics...