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Thousands of people across the country did likewise last week, as county health clinics began distributing their first shipments of the coveted vaccine for free to at-risk groups. However, because of production delays, supplies of the vaccine have been far lower than requested, forcing some counties to severely curtail their original plans. (See how to prevent illness...
...additional savings also included reductions in utility rates and consumption in buildings that were aided by reduced hiring, which led to lower occupancy rates in the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering and the Northwest Science Building...
...time injections of cash in the last fiscal year, FAS achieved a small unrestricted surplus from various savings measures—allowing FAS to grow its reserves by $58.6 million. These savings included reductions in unrestricted sums, known as subventions, distributed to major FAS units, as well as lower costs associated with faculty recruitment and relocation, which appeared to follow from a Smith letter last December that announced a sudden, severe slowdown in searches for new faculty. The additional savings also included reductions in utility rates and consumption in buildings that were aided when reduced hiring led to lower occupancy...
...good deals and tailoring health plans to get the most bang for the buck. And many employees were under the false assumption that their health benefits were mostly paid for by their employers. As the Washington Post's Ezra Klein recently pointed out, if health-insurance costs were lower, workers would almost certainly earn more in salary...
Even if the weather is not an issue, says Mir, voter apathy is. The long wait for results, political accusations between parties and a prevailing sense of international intervention have bred cynicism. "In this climate, the turnout will be much lower in the second round. And has anybody decided what constitutes an acceptable turnout to give the government legitimacy? Only 5 million voted in the first round [out of 12 million to 16 million registered voters]. What if only 1 million votes are cast this time...