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...president because this organization has been a vital part of my experience at Harvard,” Kelley said. “I’m looking forward to making a difference with a great team of new officers...
...After a week in which they were berated for their incompetence, the automakers reacted to the proposal with cautious optimism. "We appreciate the Congress's recognition of the auto industry's vital contribution to the nation's economic strength and national security. We intend to deliver a plan to Congress that shows them a viable General Motors," said GM spokesman Greg Martin. "We agree completely that there must be accountability to U.S. taxpayers for government support that enables automakers to continue their restructuring and to ensure a stronger, more competitive auto industry." For its part, Ford, which is the strongest...
Obama's green promise also sent an unvarnished signal to some of the most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy...
...infrastructure overhaul that most constituents don’t even understand the necessity of? The answer is that he or she would not and do not, leading to a precarious rotting of the infrastructure network that forms the arteries and veins connecting our nation’s vital organs...
...week that they believe that the Treasury Department and the University are different enough that many of their complaints would not be applicable if Obama appoints Summers to his Cabinet.Economics Professor Kenneth S. Rogoff said that what he sees as Summers’ swift, bold decision-making style is vital given the current financial crisis and will outweigh the effect the Faculty’s previous criticisms could have on his nomination.“I think we’re in a crisis, and in this situation, those qualms will be cast aside in account of his superior qualifications...