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...slow government response is the bogeyman. Geithner and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers were Clinton officials when a real-estate bubble in Japan burst, dragging the country into a decade-long slump. Alarmed by the downfall, they watched Tokyo gradually approve stimulus spending and scatter funding across projects??to no avail...
...Avenger II—an all-weather, carrier-based strike bomber that suffered from massive cost overruns—was cancelled in 1991. Similarly, the XM2001 Crusader, a new howitzer that promised both mobility and accuracy but delivered neither, was struck from the list in 2002. But unlike these projects??which were real Cold War dinosaurs—the Raptor has proven itself to be a highly effective and necessary part of the Air Force’s inventory...
...task force also called for a University-wide center for arts-related projects??”provisionally dubbed the ‘Hothouse.’” The report also stressed that representatives of the Harvard arts community should have a seat “at the table” for discussions about the ongoing Allston expansion...
...said. But at a meeting, a Wal-Mart representative said the company was committed to eliminating waste in its operations. For several years, Werbach has worked with the company, which is the nation’s largest employer, to develop “personal sustainability projects?? for its staff. At first these included simple steps like recycling, but eventually the program came to encompass losing weight and quitting smoking, among other initiatives. At first Werbach tried to stop this evolution, but eventually one manager convinced him that it was beneficial, noting that healthier lifestyles consume fewer resources...
...ASCE estimates that it would take $1.6 trillion over a span of five years in order to bring the nation’s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects??transportation infrastructure—the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient...