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...Green tech will gain a growing portion of the U.S. military's $104 billion procurement budget in the coming years, according to DOD spokesman Chris Isleib. "It's beyond a high priority for us," he says. "In the Iraq theater, such a high percentage of our convoys were fuel convoys. Our reliance on these [fuel] convoys was putting our soldiers' lives at risk. We realized that the need for alternative fuels was urgent. We needed to mobilize...
...That's quite some claim. Currently at its strongest against the dollar and euro since last fall, the krone is set for a "sustained appreciation" over the next year and a half, according to HSBC. The main reason: Norway's budget and current-account surpluses are the biggest among nations with the 10 most traded currencies. Factor in the country's $350 billion sovereign wealth fund pumped full of the country's oil revenues, and the cost of insuring against government default in Norway - a key measure of a currency's safety - is the lowest of those countries. With Norway...
...Vernal Equinox. Among the guests who did show up, the best comments on Sunday came from Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire who had agreed to be the Administration's Commerce Secretary and then pulled out at the last moment. Gregg remains the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee...
...little more than three decades later and then was elected to the US Senate. His own accomplishments are so modest that he lists the "Legislative Recognition Award" from the American Ambulance Association as an important milestone on his CV. Gregg's contribution to the debate about the federal budget is a statement he made on CNN's State of the Union talk show. He observed that if Congress approves the budget as it has been proposed by the Administration and deficits consequently move up at the rate that the Congressional Budget Office has projected in its analysis of the budget...
...student concerns as the Law School enters a period of transition. Law School Dean Elena Kagan is leaving after six years to become President Barak Obama’s Solicitor General, several top faculty have departed to serve in the Obama administration, and the institution faces a slate of budget cuts as the University copes with a shrinking endowment. “We have to focus on continuing the legacy of Dean Kagan,” Aune said. “But beyond that, there’s a lot of little things that student government can do?...