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Already Google has said it will participate along with nearly 200 other registered bidders, including industry giants like Verizon and AT&T as well as surprise contenders like Chevron and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, through his Vulcan Spectrum LLC. A more robust playing field would mean heightened competition in the consolidated telecom industry, benefiting consumers with more inventive technologies and potentially lower prices...
...captain Douglas Willig, who is in charge of an area adjacent to Brown's, the new CLC contracts will mean that 30% of all his workers will take a 30% pay cut next month. "My CLCs are going to change pretty drastically," says Willig. Previously Willig thought he could at least rely upon funds for micro-grants project to spark economic activity by helping Iraqis who wouldn't transition from the CLCs to the army or police to segue into small business. "The feeling was [micro-grants] was the best thing going," says Willig. He has received application packets...
...biggest reserves of oil in the world. Selling that petroleum at record prices has helped Abu Dhabi achieve the highest per-capita GDP in the world - wealth that's visible in every luxury hotel rising from the desert or spotless Mercedes prowling the streets. All those fossil fuels also mean that Abu Dhabi citizens have among the biggest carbon footprints in the world, and the emirate's exports are a big, if indirect, contribution to global climate change...
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...said interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. “They’re never going to be 100 percent.”As professors continue to discuss ways of improving student participation, some faculty members have turned to their own means of getting feedback and have created incentives to encourage students to weigh in. ‘PATHETIC’ PARTICIPATIONStudent participation has been “pathetic,” according to James D. Wilkinson ’65, the director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.Pilbeam pointed to Yale, where undergraduates...