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...After Cambridge suspended rent control in 1994, property values shot skyward, prompting concerns that taxes and market pressures are pricing middle class families out of their homes...
...next couple of years were set last March, and growth in government spending until 2011 has already been capped. The good news for Darling: Rising interest rates seem to be cooling Britain's housing market, where low-cost credit and a limited supply of homes have sent house prices skyward in recent years. The value of the average home reached $401,000 in May according to Halifax, a mortgage provider. That's almost three times the average in 1997. But with new buyers treading carefully, house prices rose by just 2% in the second quarter of this year, below...
...Rogers'next major project was the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, completed in 1986, a building that was almost as much of a shock to that city as the Pompidou had been for Paris. It extended the Pompidou's externalization-idea skyward. It also worked ambitious variations on an idea developed by the great American architect Louis Kahn, who proposed that a building could be conceived as a system of "served" and "servant" spaces. Servant spaces, the ones set aside for elevators. stairways, pipes, wiring and ventilation, could be housed apart from the served spaces, the offices, factory...
Epstein said that increased experience on the part of the student organizers, along with word-of-mouth promotion from last year’s concert, helped push sales skyward...
...work. So while Brussels might cheer consolidation in some sectors - cross-border banking, for example - in others, like utilities, it's more of a headache. Remember the deregulated U.S. market of the late '90s, when a handful of big utilities, Enron among them, were able to dominate, sending prices skyward? Kroes admitted last month that high industry concentration and feeble cross-border competition added up to "a rather gloomy picture." Consumer groups put that view more sharply. The specter of further consolidation among Europe's utilities "can only reinforce our worries regarding the actual level of competition in the market...