Word: tweaking
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...party involved thinks the process is perfect. Just a week into the program, the National Association of Auto Dealers (NADA) lobbied successfully to tweak the rules. Dealers, who were originally forced to dismantle the cars before receiving the government's check, can now hold on to cars until they get the money, so long as they ruin the car's engine within seven days. The NADA says it's happy with the Obama Administration's response to its concerns and says the latest changes significantly reduce the risk to dealers, who aren't saddled with a dead engine...
Finding ways to tweak the revenue stream is not as simple as raising prices. For instance, for most museums that charge admission, fees at the door account for less than 10% of annual income, so hiking ticket prices doesn't do much to close a budget gap. And because many museums benefit from taxpayer support, any attempt to charge more can turn into a battle over the right of the public to have affordable access to a place it subsidizes...
...dusting off the 1974 television show Land of the Lost, director Brad Silberling's goal was not to craft a PG-rated romp through the educational terrain of Sid and Marty Krofft's original series, but to tweak and distort all the various elements that made the series a cult sensation in the first place. The movie, which hits theaters Friday, reimagines the space-time of this alternate universe with an eye toward the absurd. The story still centers on disgraced paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell), but instead of his family he buddies up with scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna...
...according to former Gen Ed committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08. So, the committee rejected the longstanding class. But Mankiw would not take no for an answer. He resisted the committee’s suggestions to tweak Ec10, either by giving it more of a focus on current events or historical context to fit the “United States in the World” category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although...
...recent months.“I’m quite convinced if we threw out all mathematics in our efforts to model the financial world, we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot,” he says.Economists acknowledged that the crisis has made it necessary to tweak models and redirect interest to questions that have previously received little attention. Economists should study how models can incorporate greater sensitivity to rare events, and how macroeconomic models can be better integrated with the outputs of behavioral finance models, says Stock.But at the same time, academics may generally be more...