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...Kerry-Boxer bill, most environmental groups supported it, happy to see a bill with a tighter short-term emissions-reduction target. But the bill still has plenty of holes for a piece of legislation that has been in the works for months, saying little about how allowances for carbon emissions would be distributed among polluting industries - a key part of any cap-and-trade bill. And with natural gas fans blaming the bill for having too little support of natural gas and nuclear fans saying there's not enough support of nuclear, gathering up support from Republican Senators and even...
...April the U.S. Senate introduced the bipartisan Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which would expand sanctions imposed by Bill Clinton in 1996 and give the White House the authority to sanction companies that export gas to Iran. Senator Joe Lieberman told reporters at the time that the law would "target Iran's Achilles' economic heel, which is its dependence on imports of petroleum ... most notably gasoline." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...
Part of last spring’s budget plan had called for the hiring of fewer teaching assistants—section leaders who are otherwise unaffiliated with Harvard, as opposed to teaching fellows. Average section sizes were expected to creep upwards, closer to a long-standing target of 18 students, which, according to McCarty, is frequently undershot...
...question is whether GEM will be more effective than the banking sector in meeting the funding needs of SMEs. Prospective GEM companies certainly hope so. The 10 enterprises initially aimed to raise around $490 million, but doubled the target after IPOs like Bawang were accorded high valuations. Based on their aggressive IPO pricing, the average price-earnings ratio of the 10 stocks is estimated at 55 times 2008 profits, higher than the average p/e ratio of 40 times asked by the 10 companies that most recently listed on the SME Board. (See pictures of Shanghai today...