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...attempts to woo industry through subsidies work so well. While Dresden has managed to reinvent itself as a micro-electronics "cluster," a similar attempt by the town of Frankfurt an der Oder failed. Around eastern Germany, there are numerous examples of industries without real prospects being kept alive artificially, complains Holznagel of the Taxpayers' Federation, citing tilemaking and leather-treatment plants on the Baltic coast. "The subsidies just prolong the death," he says, "but it comes anyway...
...Democrats devised a permit allocation system to line up committee support. To woo lawmakers from districts powered by coal-fired utilities in the Midwest and Southeast, the agreement would give away 35% of the permits to electric utilities until 2025 while they make a transition to cleaner fuels or develop carbon capture technology. Research for such technology would be subsidized by billions of dollars raised from government auctions...
...England Coffee set up along with two other vendors, Green Mountain Coffee and Seattle's Best, and all three proceeded to woo students with charming salemanship, sweet treats, and of course, smooth coffee...
...expected to crush the general election field - if he can make it through the primary. Dubbed a RINO - Republican in Name Only - by GOP stalwarts for supporting green policies and President Obama's stimulus package, among other left-wing pet causes, Crist should have enough centrist street cred to woo moderate voters in the general election. But his campaign could be doomed in the primary by conservatives, who fear that, despite his pro-life, anti-gun control record, once in the Senate Crist could pull a Specter and pivot across the aisle. His case with far-right Floridians...
Though the Faculty of Arts and Sciences extended the offers before the market crash, the faculty salary freeze may have hindered Harvard’s attempts to woo Kisin, a prominent number theorist...