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That is one reason Intel has been bandying markets about for more than two years but has yet to implement them in a real-world scenario. It's not for lack of good results. In a laboratory experiment run with M.I.T.'s Malone, Intel used a market to make a coordination decision: which factories should produce computer chips and when. In the experiment, a centralized, strategic plan was replaced with a market in which salesmen and a plant manager traded futures contracts representing chips. The result was nearly 100% efficiency in allocating manufacturing capacity. That experiment echoed another, real-life...
Nations sometimes lose their bearings when confronted by an enemy. In a state of crisis or even panic, they implement measures that are later viewed as regrettable. From 1798 to 1800, the French were considered terrorists, pirating ships and making things uncomfortable for the fledgling American republic. The Federalist Party led a backlash against the French, and Thomas Jefferson and his Republican Party were seen as Francophiles. The XYZ Affair--a scandal centering on the fact that some French officials demanded bribes from American diplomats--brought relations between France and the U.S. to the breaking point. The Federalist Administration...
...percent of the spy budget is outside the CIA's control, much of it in the Pentagon's spy satellite programs. A Goss aide said the bill would give the CIA director authority over 70 percent of the intelligence budget. According to a fact sheet, Goss' bill would implement many of the recommendations issued in December 2002 by a joint inquiry into 9/11 by the House and Senate intelligence committees, and it would boost the director's authority to wield more management power than some critics believe outgoing Director George Tenet has mustered. The chairman of the September 11 Commission...
...national veto in foreign policy, taxation and social affairs. (That means France and Germany, to cite a hypothetical example, couldn't demand a uniform rate of income tax over Britain's or Poland's wishes.) Once a general foreign policy initiative is decided unanimously, however, details of how to implement it are subject to qualified majority vote, so there may yet be room for mischief making. But with 25 states inside the tent, it will be harder than ever for any one or two countries to run the show. In fact, this summit proved how far from unity...
This series of incidents prompted Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to send an e-mail on Jan. 14 to all students outlining safety precautions and stressing the University’s commitment to safety. Gross also announced plans to implement a new walking escort program and to review concerns about spotty shuttle bus and evening van service...