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...such circumstances, the E.U. should suspend the pact immediately, says Daniel Gros, director of the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies. "It means it doesn't break - it bends. And it is ready to bounce back," he says. "We could then reaffirm them when we have a better idea of where the economy is going." Not that anyone knows when that will...
...Philip, but flip them around and stick them together, and pretty soon you're thinking about lung cancer. The Altria Group, on the other hand - which is the new corporate handle by which Philip Morris prefers to be known - means nothing at all, and that is precisely the idea...
...with BU fans, with BC fans, with Northeastern fans. Representing Harvard? Two small rows of band. I’m not going to call myself a super sports fan. I left the Harvard-Yale tailgate because I was cold, and, even after much explanation, I have no idea what a “down” is. It doesn’t make sense, and I refuse to believe otherwise. I also have little pep. Like almost everyone else at this school, I enjoy two things: G-chat and complaining. Usually, both at the same time. But watching these other...
...face of it, the idea of cost-benefit analysis seems like a relatively uncontroversial idea. It seems reasonable to assess, for instance, whether improvements in public health are significant enough to justify the financial costs imposed on polluters to curb the emission of harmful particles into the air. Reasonable, that is, until you start to fashion formulas for deciding just how costs and benefits should be measured...
...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...