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‘Replace short haul flights with high speed rail’ say citizens around the world

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The study offers policymakers, operators and transport planners, powerful insights into what motivates a person’s transport decisions within and between cities. While sustainability factors may not drive how people travel – only an important factor to 14% – the research does show that respondents back green legislative interventions.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away. As part of ensuring that support, the average G-fee at the time was thus kept low – in the 0.20 Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For some insight into how different research operations have significantly different rates and capacities for the development of spinoff businesses, see " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector." billion CHIPS Act. manufactured semiconductors.