Word: planners
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Meanwhile, challenger Sam Seidel, a wonkish Harvard-trained urban planner coming off of a narrow loss in 2005, won a place on the council, and Councillor David P. Maher, who was elected in a special election in September, retained his seat...
...space where you can get a respite from the intensity of urban living.” “Nobody’s going to get 100 percent of what they want and nor are they going to be 100 percent happy with the development,” urban planner and council hopeful Sam Seidel said of the tension between resident concerns and development. “But if it’s perceived as being fair that’s what you have to aim for.” Seidel, a graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School...
...soft-spoken mid-Cambridge resident’s bid for a seat on the City Council fell short by just 90 votes. This year the Harvard-trained urban planner is back, waging another issues-based campaign similar to the one that endeared him to progressives throughout the city two years...
...have traded in their corporate careers for the satisfying experience of volunteer work. By many accounts, the number of midlife meaning seekers is exploding, as more and more boomers move out of the workforce. "Giving back broadens the dimensions of what we call retirement," says Cicily Maton, a financial planner in Chicago. She says nearly all her post-50 clients give either money or time...
...effort to ease the pressure, China's economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, on Wednesday announced an almost 10% increase in domestic gasoline and diesel prices, calling the move an "urgent step" needed to tamp down demand and encourage refiners to ramp up production. The price hike is likely to alleviate the shortages - that is, until the next increase in global crude prices, says Gordon Kwan, a Hong Kong-based oil and gas analyst for CLSA Ltd. "When retail prices [in China] are nearly a third lower than in the rest of the world, why would producers want...