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...encourage greater use of environmentally friendly technology. The first can mean higher energy taxes; the second can mean more expensive machinery, although some experts argue that the switch doesn't have to cost a lot more. Last month the Department of Energy released a report saying a 20% cutback to 1990 emission levels would be possible by 2010 without raising energy costs, through the spread of new technologies and finely targeted incentives like tax breaks for old coal-fired power plants...
...University not only because it is part of the Ivy League but also because of its reputation in women's gymnastics. The call from Providence, Rhode Island, though, was to inform her that Brown's athletic department was eliminating four sports, among them women's gymnastics, in a budget cutback. "I was devastated," recalls Stern. "I wanted the best academics and the best athletics. Brown's team had won the Ivys the year before. I had already turned down full rides at Berkeley [California] and Illinois." Stern and other female athletes eventually filed a class action against the university...
...Currier resident Charmaine A. Smith '99 said she was also disappointed to see the cutback...
...addition, a $20,000 cutback in maintenance costs forced PBHA members to close the building on weekends and to eliminate its evening hours...
...panel, educators told legislators that Massachusetts public schools will face a 17 percent funding cutback if Congress passes the proposed Republican budget...