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...made some mistake in our past,” she said. “How would we feel if this policy was applied to us, and do we think it’s an appropriate policy?” Others pointed to “zero-tolerance” disciplinary actions as being problematic. Committee member Luc Schuster questioned whether it was appropriate for a student who committed one infraction to receive a five day suspension, a possibility that the current policy allows. “We want to make sure our intervention strategies are effective...
...Russia was chauvinistic... as a Ukrainian, I have zero sympathy for the Russians,” Polyakov said...
...from Virginia, which has zero professional sports franchises. But I have family around in Chicago, the South, and California, so I saw Jordan play, my dad took me to see the 49ers win the NFC Championship game in 1995, and the Braves always blasted...
...also poised to take command of the very power structure he so vividly and colorfully ran against. The number of his Reform Party allies in the state government is exactly zero. During the campaign, when he was asked how, if elected, he would deal with Democratic and Republican legislators, Ventura would roll up a sleeve, flex a bicep and rumble, "This is how." Good theater, but not a terribly plausible plan for running a government...
...that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain as a successful project that resulted in a zero percent cost overrun. Jerold S. Kayden, the co-chair of the GSD’s Department of Urban Planning and Design, said that Flyvbjerg’s expertise on the costs and benefits of megaproject construction is especially relevant today. “Today, infrastructure is sexy...