Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tentative plan is for GM to continue building Hummer vehicles through a transitional period. The length of the transition is one of the unresolved issues. Longer term, Hummer is hoping to replace its gas guzzlers with new models that use lighter-weight materials and advanced power trains, and maybe even hybrid vehicles. The plan is to continue building Hummers in the U.S., not in China where the prevailing wages, $12 to $25 per day, are significantly lower...
...Though the advent of printing permitted communication among networks of philosophes and thinkers during the Enlightenment, it was nonetheless through debate in academies and salons that intellectual discourse advanced. Similarly, though we can get much out of reading on our own or watching lecture videos online during reading period, it is in conversation with peers that our views solidify and gain clarity...
None of the ideas on the Idea Bank site have yet been implemented, because it has only been a short period since the site was launched, wrote FAS spokesman Jeff Neal in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. Neal added that the highly rated recommendations deposited on the Idea Bank will be reviewed by the working groups currently tasked with considering ways to cut costs in the various FAS divisions...
...House Democrats in holding the fiscal line. According to the official government accounting, which leaves out most of the systemic changes, the current House bill would moderately grow the deficit over the next 20 years, while the Senate Finance Committee bill would save nearly $1 trillion in the same period...
...about broader European issues. In an interview with TIME before the election, Westerwelle didn't refer directly to France but talked about the critical importance of the E.U. as a political entity, not just an economic one. "If Europe hadn't achieved anything other than peace for this [postwar] period, it would already have been worthwhile," he said. But the E.U. could do more to improve its decision-making structure, he added: "Europe needs to be better. It should focus more on issues that have to be discussed at a European level and should hold back from questions that countries...