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...focus of a tough debate inside the government and in parliament. Almost inevitably, the budget would grow from its initial projections, and no ministry or department had an incentive to reduce spending. Under the new procedure, the government and parliament set a ceiling for total spending. They allocate a portion of that total to ministries and agencies who then decide how it should be spent. So if there's a new project that needs financing, the funds have to be taken from elsewhere. The Finance Ministry gives wide leeway to the departments to make their own spending decisions. In Sweden...
...pleasure we can take from our academic work, doesn’t a goodly portion come from being able to gab about it with your closest friends? It’s true, during reading period, Cabot Library becomes a veritable motel, but nothing captures our passion for academics like the lunchtime debates and shouting matches that overflow from, say, “Justice” lecture into Annenberg Hall. Traditionally, academics use thousands of stuffy, jargon-filled journals to communicate their most obscure thoughts and discoveries, but the joy of college is the ability to air them over a good...
...admits that the disagreement with his brother over the Hemings has fractured an already strained relationship. Responding to charges that the association is excluding the Hemings for racial reasons, he says, "Absolutely not. Ninety-three percent of the family can't be racist," he says, referring to the portion who voted to exclude the Hemings. "It's impossible...
...Portion of those jobs that have gone to noncitizens, who are ineligible to vote...
...Iraqi civilians have become an almost daily reality. Insurgent violence has not only overshadowed Iraq's political transition; it has choked the economic reconstruction as well. Electricity output is only at two thirds of its target level, while oil exports have been repeatedly interrupted by sabotage. A substantial portion of money allocated for reconstruction today is spent on hiring security for those doing the work...