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...would be taken off the road and replaced with more efficient ones. (All cash-for-clunkers programs require the old cars to be scrapped rather than resold.) "There are significant environmental advantages and substantive benefits for the auto sector," says Benjamin Goldstein, a policy analyst for left-leaning think tank the Center for American Progress. "This goes right for the source of the problem, for vehicles sales...
...exert self-control, and feeling their misery, tricks your brain into believing that your own glucose levels have declined. As the study says, this trick would, "in effect, set one's internal fuel gauge to 'low' [even if] there is still plenty of fuel left in the tank...
...firm wants to speculate on interest rates that's fine. There is nothing that prevents them from using TARP that way," says Dean Baker, who is the co-founder of the Washington, D.C. liberal-leaning think tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "But I am not sure that helps the economy, and if they were to get that wrong the firm and taxpayers would be much worse...
...compared to 180 per day in some European cities, says Arreguin. Furthermore, on Easter Saturdays, residents traditionally have huge water fights, in which everyone from grandparents to young children join in hurling bucket loads over each other. Piet Klop, an investigator at the Washington-based environmental think tank World Resources Institute, says that people will not learn to ration water unless it hits their pockets. "We need to understand that it is a more valuable commodity than oil and prices must reflect that better," Klop says. "Cheap subsidized water is not helping people. It is giving them a bad service...
...numerous conflicts raging. But as the number of aid workers operating across the globe has soared - more than doubling over the past decade to a record 290,000 people last year - so too have attacks against them, according to a report published Wednesday by the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute...