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Stirratt nodded in agreement while Cline paused for a moment, gathering his thoughts before concluding his point on how the familiar can be rediscovered and made personal. “Sometimes too much time is spent trying to be original, or trying to worry about ‘Wow, does this sound too much like [your influences]’ and it can’t be like that because you?...
...Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972--one of the first major agreements of the Cold War--actually aimed to keep both the Soviet Union and the U.S. vulnerable to nuclear attack by forbidding the development of defensive systems. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the same year, which capped the number of weapons allowed each side, set the balance of destructive power at a fixed level. In 1986, two great dreamers, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, met in Iceland with the aim of total nuclear disarmament. The duo failed, but their talks set the stage for the 1987 Intermediate-Range...
...February, Dong signed a licensing agreement with Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding for Inbicon's biomass-refinery technology to convert waste products from palm oil into ethanol. "In our view, being on the edge of new green technologies is a great opportunity," says Eldrup. "It gives us an advantage in reducing CO[subscript 2], but it also gives us technological advantages as well as business opportunities. The U.S. has very high ambitions to increase its ethanol production, and we think this might be a great opportunity in years to come...
...even if the agreement gives the government some breathing room, Greece faces a tough road ahead. The markets - and Europe - will be watching closely to see if the country's socialist government can follow through on the deeper structural reforms Greece needs to implement to rein in its staggering debt and jump-start its moribund economy. As part of its pledges to its European partners, Greece has already cut civil servants' pay and raised taxes. But those are merely short-term measures. The bigger challenge is to reform the country's tax and pension systems, liberalize controlled areas...
This is all the more surprising given the organization’s origins. Harvard created the Ed Portal in 2008 as a component of the legally-binding cooperation agreement that the City of Boston required the University to sign before it could break ground on the Allston Science Complex. As part of the agreement, Harvard pledged to distribute $25 million dollars over the next decade for community benefits...