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...deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the Treasury Department under President George H. W. Bush. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he also took on positions at the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research and at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. He also spent a year at the University of Chicago as a visiting professor in 1994 before assuming a professorship at Columbia...
...redistributing money to the poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour advocacy group. As the two men face tough choices this term on pensions, taxes, and benefits for the disabled, they can certainly bridge any gap between them - if they truly want...
...wines and that its French and Italian wines meet those countries' strict production laws. But winemakers today have many techniques at their disposal: they can choose grapes carefully and blend grapes from several different vineyards. During fermentation, they make dozens of choices, such as what the temperature in the tank should be and what kind of yeast should be added. Reverse osmosis can also be used to remove excess water or alcohol; micro-oxygenation can soften a red wine's tannins so you can drink it now rather than wait a decade...
...landscape, though, than big wind farms and solar arrays, and it's also part of a growing trend toward local production of goods and services, including energy. "Mini-wind turbines and solar arrays should become familiar household fixtures," according to Joanna Collins, author of the British environmental think-tank Green Alliance's A Microgeneration Manifesto. "These new technologies cut greenhouse-gas emissions [and] provide reliable energy supplies...
...ideological grounds. "If being occasionally tough and aggressive and abrasive were a problem," chided Vice President Dick Cheney, "a lot of members of the United States Senate wouldn't qualify." Said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank where Bolton once worked: "This is not the outrage of sincere grownups over the malfeasance of a senior executive. John is not about making the world safe for cocktail parties...