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...intended purpose of the meters,” she said. “We wanted more spaces for people to come and dine or shop.” Director of the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department Susan E. Clippinger said she hopes that the price increase will encourage short-term parking, the primary purpose of meters in the Square. Clippinger also said that Cambridge will be utilizing other projects—such as additional spaces for bicycle parking—that encourage the use of other alternative means of transportation. Despite the potential boon to local businesses, some said...
...Lost in the debate over how much regulation to impose is what if any effect the Treasury plan might have on the current crisis. The simple answer is none. The Treasury department says some modest short-term proposals in the plan can be implemented right away, but any of the larger reorganizing efforts, including the creation of the new regulatory bodies, are likely to take three to eight years to make it through Congress and into action...
...says Molly Gaskin, president of the Point-a-Pierre wild fowl trust where she oversees a breeding and reintroduction program for scarlet ibis. "We don't have an activism-oriented population; we'll need a catastrophe before that happens," Gaskin said. Oil and gas expansion, she said, is for short-term gain, "and when the well known and wealthy say 'I've got ibis on the table,' that encourages the small-time stuff." The way things are headed, Gaskin says, Trinidad's national bird will have to be the carrion buzzard...
...create dollars at will. It gets those dollars into the economy by buying Treasury securities on the open market. When you hear the Fed is cutting rates, that usually means it's ordering the traders at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to start buying, and that drives short-term Treasury rates down...
...response to criticism that the odor covered up the smell of coffee), slow its rapid pace of opening stores in the U.S., and no longer report comparable-store sales to Wall Street - a sign that the company is serious about investing for long-term growth and not catering to short-term concerns from investors...