Word: winterize
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Before it was disbanded, HIID had 20 overseas offices, 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million. But research done by HIID staff was never passed directly to graduate or undergraduate students. When a faculty review committee ruled last winter that HIID should be dissolved, it rightly based part of its decision on the idea that HIID's purpose was incompatible with Harvard's central mission of teaching and research...
...Suddenly I was cool. In Los Angeles these days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television...
...price of oil--which is determined as much by speculation as by supply--in the short term. (By the end of last week the price had already dropped to $32.65 per bbl., from $37.20 last Wednesday.) The tax credits should help lower the price of heating oil this winter, and the low-income funds will ease the burden on some families...
Pumping more crude oil into the system won't help since refineries are already operating at 95% capacity, and not enough crude can be turned into heating oil to make a real difference by winter. Besides, if oil-producing countries cut back supply in response to the U.S. release, they will wipe out its impact. Bush maintains the reserve should be used only in a true crisis. He agrees that the government should help low-income elderly with their heating bills, but he proposes no other short-term way of bringing down prices, other than to argue that he would...
...designers, Web developers and business-school graduates are working up P2P programs and business plans and trotting them over to venture capitalists, who, in the wake of all the buzz about Napster, have been funding P2Ps the way they funded their alphabetical brethren B2Bs--business-to-business companies--last winter...