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Second, the free market can actually encourage environmental preservation and conservation through market structure. Had the market been left alone in California and consumers been asked to pay the true cost of their energy, it's possible that the underlying folly of our economy may have been challenged in the most productive manner possible. The resulting situation might very well have led to more efficient technologies or to greater emphasis on conservation. The long-term solution to our energy troubles, after all, won't come from increasing supply simply because our supply for energy is not yet unlimited...
...addition, masters often fund House Committee purchases that they feel benefit the whole House. In Pforzheimer, one of the co-masters is present at every House Committee meeting, and if they deem a purchase particularly worthwhile, they pay for half the cost...
...Dunster House, the masters cover the cost of two sheep and a goat for the annual goat roast, but the House Committee is responsible for everything else--including cutting up the carcasses...
...thought the media's desire to come to a conclusion whether or not they came to the truth was partly the result of dirty laundry, unrefundable airline tickets and weekends spent doubled up in scarce hotel rooms. But it's actually the passion to be first, even at the cost of being wrong, as election night proved. Reversing themselves several times didn't encourage the networks to admit at four in the morning that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least...
...cost is skyrocketing and availability is plummeting," Ellison says. "We've taken for granted that our graduate students are here 24 hours...