Word: research
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Reducing those emissions by any meaningful degree will require tough new federal standards for automobile fuel economy; government-sponsored inducements to make production of electricity by utilities -- as well as consumption by homes and businesses -- more efficient; and a major research- and-development program for alternative sources of energy. So far, the Bush Administration has not pushed for any of those measures. Nor has it proposed or endorsed any legislation mandating cuts in CO2 emissions...
...subsidizing prices for essential goods and services. The government prints more money to cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...
...later, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees announced that Linda S. Wilson, Michigan's vice president for research, would become the school's seventh chief executive...
...fundraising positions advertised in the publication recently. Although it could not be determined whether plans for a multi-billion dollar fund drive caused the apparent surge, the approximately 10 jobs listed in The Gazette seemed compelling. Take this entry on page 22--"Development Assistant for Research/Development Associate for Research." Among the duties specified, the prospective "assistant" will get to undertake "in-depth biographical and financial research and analysis of individuals..." The resumes are probably pouring...