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...Although the University has often spoken broadly about the ways its expansion will revitalize Allston in the long-term, some residents say Harvard’s presence has negatively affected their short-term circumstances...
...further—and more immediate—response to concerns over low levels of endowment spending, Faust has encouraged deans to come forward this year with plans for “strategic decapitalizations,” or proposals for one-time infusions of endowment money geared toward short-term initiatives...
...People think of a diet as a diet, a short-term diet, rather than lifestyle, so they'll lose weight. When they hit their goal, they go back to the way they were eating before, and that's exactly why we emphasize the three phases and the transition from phase one to phase two. We emphasize this more and give more help and guidelines in this book. We have any number of people who have kept weight off over many, many years, and everybody will wax and wane some. But the other is regular exercise...
...there can be a strong temptation towards what might be called green-collar inflation, because the idea that environmentalism can actually add jobs is key to the new arguments for global warming action. On the surface, cap and trade and other anti-climate change policies look like short-term economic losers that will raise the cost of energy and lead to job loss. Certainly that's the argument of many conservatives - a study by the National Association of Manufacturers estimated that one of the main carbon cap-and-trade proposals before Congress would cost the U.S. economy...
...Saudis did boost oil production, it wouldn't reduce the cost of gas in the U.S. "The bottom line is," said Hadley, "the problem of high gas prices is more than just about oil, it's more than just about Saudi, and it's more than just about short-term production." All of which is true. Unsaid was the fact that even if the Saudis could reduce gas and oil prices, why would they? They're making a lot of money and the U.S. doesn't have much leverage to convince them they ought to make less...