Word: aaa
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City taxpayers can be assured that their money is in good hands, as Standard & Poor's Corporation announced Friday that it has raised its rating of Cambridge's finances to the AAA-level, the highest evaluation a city can receive...
Cambridge has been awarded AAA status by the two other major U.S. financial rating agencies this year, Moody's Investor Services and Fitch IBCA. It now joins cities such as Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Winston-Salem, N.C., in the top tier of six municipalities in the U.S. that have received AAA ratings from the three major agencies...
...Groups like the Asian American Players (AAA) and Black Community Action Student Theater (CAST) also figure into the process of increasing minority representation in Harvard theater. Both troupes seek to give performance opportunities to minority actors and playwrights and to treat theatrically the concerns of their respective ethnic groups. "It frustrates me that a place as diverse as Harvard doesn't seem to see the opportunity presented to it by its diversity," says Vanessa Carr '02, who is currently revitalizing CAST with Saffold...
...Krebs warns against the easy assignment of dealing with ethnic issues to groups like AAA and CAST. "If I'm a director picking a show, I have a responsibility to be flexible or make theater a venue to discuss important issues...
...that the episode and had damaged Iran and called for stability. "[Instability] can be very damaging economically," he warned. "Foreign and domestic investment could decrease and Iran?s risk factor could rise." The very fact of a doyen of Iran?s Islamic revolution expressing concern over the country?s AAA rating signals a profound shift ? even the conservatives need Iran to make peace with the Arab world and the West. Iran?s oil revenues financed the Islamic revolution, and the long-term decline in world oil prices has left the country hurting economically. "Even the conservatives are agreed...