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...past month, the Work Team—created shortly after the University announced that it would halt construction indefinitely on the Allston Science Complex due to financial constraints—has met with local community leaders and government officials to discuss Harvard’s immediate and future role in developing the Allston campus despite a drastically altered financial landscape...
Andrew Herzberg, along with his brother Kenneth, both former investment bankers, came up with the program after seeing sales grind to a halt on thousands of newly constructed and half-built single family homes and condos in markets such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and parts of Florida. The aim is to assist developers and homebuilders clear unsold inventory, which - at least theoretically - should then help to stabilize home prices industry-wide. (See the best business deals...
...international scientific agencies have found evidence that the tuna is truly endangered, most recently the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which announced support for trade limitations in December. If the tuna is finally listed, it would represent a watershed moment in endangered-species protection. It's one thing to halt the hunting of relatively rare species like the rhino or the elephant. It's another to ban the trade of a major staple of sushi restaurants - especially as a cuisine that was once limited to Japanese workers has become a global favorite. A ban on the bluefin tuna trade would...
...construction management firm that is currently overseeing the building of the $1 billion Allston Science Complex. The University is planning to halt construction of the complex this spring, when the foundation of the structure has been completed, but well before it is ready for occupants...
...immediately retaliated, freezing all visas of citizens belonging to the 25 European countries (including Switzerland) that belong to the continent's shared visa system, called Schengen. The dispute rose above personal issues into an affront against Islam in early February, when Swiss citizens voted in a national referendum to halt the construction of minarets...