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...impetus for the voucher program was a study by the Rand Corp. that reached just the conclusion that free-market advocates wanted to hear: rental units in many cities are plentiful but too expensive for lower-income people. Though liberal critics derided the idea as just another way to cut services to the poor, the Administration is now well along on a five-year, $200 million pilot program to test vouchers in 20 communities. To date 15,000 leases have been subsidized by vouchers; eventually the Government plans to subsidize 140,000 rental units...
...refuge in Europe for a few months. Having spent the last 15 years of his life in Massachusetts Hall, Bok certainly deserves a sabbatical, but the president really started his vacation sometime in September. Since then the administration line has been one of retreat, defense and obfuscation. Despite the impetus one might think a milestone like the 350th celebration would provide, Bok has advanced virtually no new agendas, ignored student and faculty concerns and restricted his availability to the campus press...
This year Wu Hung is advising two seniors who are writing theses on contemporary Chinese art--Christopher Storey and Jamie A. Anderson. "Wu Hung is the one person who could really help me with what I'm doing," Anderson says. "Without him, the impetus for Chinese art studies at Harvard would be gone...
...feel that East Cambridge is a dynamic area that is going to grow tremendously," said Davis. "The housing market is very strong, there is great demand, and this activity is a great impetus for selling luxury housing," said Davis...
...initial impetus for the research came from a rather oblique direction. UCSD Biochemist Marlene DeLuca has been investigating for 20 years how the firefly protein -- in this case, an enzyme called luciferase -- produces light. But the process of collecting and grinding up fireflies to extract the enzyme was laborious and costly. She and Donald Helinski, a molecular geneticist, decided to isolate the luciferase gene, cloning exact copies of it and splicing it into the genetic machinery of the common bacterium E. coli. The E. coli could then massproduce luciferase by the vat. DeLuca and Helinski accomplished this task by using...