Word: institutionalize
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But it was the proposed closure of the surfing museum that sounded the loudest alarms. It immediately unleashed a tidal wave of response from surfers worldwide and sparked an emotional campaign to keep the museum afloat. "It came out of the blue. We had no idea," says Dan Young, 55...
Get It While It's Hot. New York Restaurant Week continues. Catch a $24.07 lunch at Danny Meyer's Eleven Madison Park (11 Madison Avenue; 212-889-0905) or a $35 dinner at the 170-year-old financial district institution Delmonico's Steak House (56 Beaver Street; 212-509-1144...
The point is, specifics really matter. And when specifics get left to Congress and the states, they tend to get screwed up. Politicians love to cut ribbons for new roads; repairs don't have the same bringing-home-the-bacon oomph. Most state transportation departments have become virtual asphalt factories...
Paterson, facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, wants to cut 55% of state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the...
"If you don't live in a city, you look at them like they're basket cases," says Amy Liu, deputy director of the Brooking Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "But Obama doesn't talk about urban policy in the traditional sense of distressed neighborhoods and crime. He talks about...