Word: restrictions
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...afraid that making more progress on the balance is going to more rapidly restrict choice,” Fowler-Finn said...
City officials said creating further socioeconomic balance by controlling which schools kindergartners can enter would restrict the choice parents have in choosing schools, further lowering dipping public confidence in the city’s schools...
...congressional hearings this week, top brass from the industry's main trade group are planning to push a three-pronged proposal. They want to impose a 2% redemption fee on all funds except money markets; require that the firms, and not any intermediaries, receive orders by 4 p.m.; and restrict trading of fund shares by insiders. Spitzer, who is scheduled to appear at the hearings, wants an industry overhaul that starts at the top. "We have to shake up fund boards the same way we've shaken up corporate boards," he says. --By Barbara Kiviat
...University as a greedy, corporate land-gobbler, there is actually one group that stands to lose more as a result of the NIMBY stance than Harvard. Young families looking for housing in the Boston area are in an extraordinary squeeze as more and more city governments choose to restrict the level and extent of development across the Northeast...
...activists like Carlson have a tough choice. They can either restrict development and make it impossible for anyone except financial-district Yuppies to buy a house or they can allow development and ensure that Cambridge grows larger and more dense but stays affordable and diverse. By choosing the latter, Cambridge residents are likely to do well by subdividing their land and redeveloping it, which will probably turn out to be as profitable or more so than strangling the local property market...