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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most obvious example is driving. Americans drive too much, and they have good reason to do so. In the United States, gas tends to be two to three times cheaper than in Western Europe, since federal and state gas taxes in the U.S. are inefficiently low. Now that oil prices around the world have fallen, it would be the best time to gradually start raising gasoline taxes, which would limit gas consumption, pollution, and congestion as well as motivate people to move closer to work or to demand more public transportation. Unlike regulations or rations, higher taxes would not take...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Change We Are Not Asked For | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...reneging when the results didn’t go as planned.” In response, HoCo issued an apology for the confusion of having two surveys and dispelled the notions of HoCo dictatorship, claiming to have Lev unity in mind and citing financial obstacles and low survey participation rate (286 out of about 650 Leverites) as problems...

Author: By Julia S Chen | Title: Bottom of the Formal Planning Barrel | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Harvard: 2,046/29,000 admitted, 7% record low acceptance rate

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Admissions: An Ivy Comparison | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Yale: 1,951/26,000 admitted, 7.5%, record low acceptance rate

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Admissions: An Ivy Comparison | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Brown: 2,708/24,988 admitted, 10.8 % record low acceptance rate

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Admissions: An Ivy Comparison | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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