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...announced a new pledge campaign that asks students, staff, and faculty members to commit to a series of energy-saving measures. If more than 50 percent of the residents and office workers in a building sign the pledge, the Green Campus Initative will buy wind energy credits to offset one-quarter of the building’s energy use. The campaign, called “emPOWER Harvard,” replaces GCI’s three-year-old “Go Cold Turkey” pledge campaign, which urged students to minimize energy consumption over Thanksgiving break. The coordinator...
...gift offers--catered lunches, dinners at fine restaurants and endless office supplies, to name a few--from drugmakers that hope she will readily prescribe their products. Yet rather than relish these traditional perks, Wen and the 60,000-member American Medical Students Association (AMSA) have launched a campaign to offset the influence of drug-industry representatives. Students at 150 medical schools intend to fan out this year across the country, calling on 40,000 doctors, urging them to stop depending on salespeople bearing gifts. "Accepting gifts from drug companies influences prescribing habits in a way that...
...city residents were surprised by a steep rise in real estate values and an attendant tax increase. The City Council voted in September to offset the increases by buying down the debt with city funds...
...desperate when you strip out volatile fuel prices. The core consumer rate has risen just 2% the past 12 months, even though overall consumer prices have jumped a more troublesome 4.7% in that period. The big fear is that the core rate will lift as companies raise prices to offset the higher prices they pay for energy. "Inevitably, we'll get some pass-through," says James O'Sullivan, economist at the brokerage UBS. Indeed, Clorox, Marriott, Carnival, Deere and FedEx have already raised or said they would raise prices because of the high cost of fuel...
...place. Maintenance costs will likely inflate what is already an exorbitant price tag: although a decade ago the cost of the center was projected to be $30 million, the final bill is approximately $100 million.If the terracotta is an effort to make CGIS blend into Cambridge, it is, however, offset by the designer’s ultimate decision to divide the center into two identical, disconnected buildings, each facing the other from opposite sides of the street. The exact duplication of the buildings and their direct alignment gives the impression that this center is forming its own little, self-involved...