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Stavins said that the proposals were neither mutually exclusive nor even necessarily sufficient on their own. He advocated for the free market as a tool for controlling carbon emissions, but acknowledged that “tremendous political resistance” in developed countries could make market solutions difficult to implement...
...affordable housing projects would be eligible. But the projects are privately-owned, and only city-owned buildings qualify for the grant program, Healy said. If the City does not secure the grant, it will apply again in nine to 12 months, he added. The Council also discussed efforts to implement a bicycle share program for the Boston region. Assistant City Manager Beth Rubenstein said that a regional program would be more feasible than the Cambridge-only bike sharing program that the Council had floated previously. “We’re more ambitious than that,” Rubenstein...
...both 2003 and 2004, owners voted on a scaled-back version of the proposal outlined above. Each team would be guaranteed a single offensive possession, but after that, it would be sudden death, first to score wins. Not 100% fair, but a vast improvement over the current rules. To implement a rule change, three-fourths of the owners must agree with the proposal. In '03, just 55% of the owners approved it. The next year, only 22% jumped on board...
Schwartz also said he was not surprised to see changes in public health occur within two years of the implementation of the ban. “Cardiovascular death rates have been falling for a whole host of reasons. If you implement a policy and you implement it relatively suddenly, then the change would happen fast,” he said...
...report will remain a mystery to students and other members of the Harvard arts community. While the Task Force has taken into account peer institutions, past Harvard reforms, and student opinions, all that can be certain at this point is that, like all institutional reforms at Harvard, the implementation of Task Force’s findings will take time.PEERING AROUNDEnglish professor and Task Force head Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined to offer details on the their unreleased report, but English professor and Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha, who is also a member of the Task Force...