Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wolfe's new proposal has challenged Massachusetts state authorities to come up with a fixed-cost projection. Without such a number, he says, there will be no further federal funds allocated to the project. Effectively throwing the ball into the state's court, it is hardly an extreme proposal.
While the staff's proposal is a big improvement over the registrar's suggestion, there doesn't appear to be any good reason to change the status quo. One of the main benefits of making the alteration, the registrar contends, is that the problems associated with ending the spring exam...
The proposed Aetna Inc. will undoubtedly play a leading role in determining which perception prevails. For staid and paternalistic Aetna, a longstanding leader in traditional indemnity plans (you pick the doctors; they pick up the bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the...
Rivlin pointed to peace, a high level of employment, cleaner air and water, prompt federal relief for disasters and stable financial institutions. Given all these positive features of society, Rivlin said that the federal government has already fixed most of the problems that it has the power to fix.
The dirty little secret in the incentives game is that the real criteria for site selection are skill and cost of labor, proximity to customers and price of real estate. Tax breaks are rarely the dealmaker. Barry Rubin, a professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, notes that...