Word: accountability
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...major difficulty now is the weak economy and rising joblessness. Under the U.S. government's plan, a modified loan payment must not account for more than 31% of a family's income. With unemployment north of 10%, in a growing number of cases, the mortgage isn't the problem - the lack of a paycheck is. "It increasingly appears that HAMP is targeted at the housing crisis as it existed six months ago, rather than as it exists right now," concluded the Congressional Oversight Panel, a group charged with evaluating the program, in an October report...
Having a Twitter account certainly leads to procrastination, but it may also lead to increased social interaction in the real world, according to Dr. Reynol Junco, an associate professor at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania...
...alumni—not by the Harvard Management Corporation—should drive educational and economic policies at Harvard. In our view, Harvard needs to engage in genuine innovation and a sober reappraisal of its educational, investment, and budget policies. This can only happen when Harvard takes into account the ideas and needs of the broad community of stakeholders who care about—and who have an interest in—the future of this university...
...these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011. Just as we have done in Iraq, we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground. We will continue to advise and assist Afghanistan's security forces to ensure that they can succeed over the long haul. But it will be clear to the Afghan government - and, more importantly, to the Afghan people - that they will ultimately be responsible for their...
While the story made for spectacular news reports, the account was quickly questioned by doctors, security experts and even others in the national police. By the end of November, police authorities and not the fat thieves were the ones under the microscope...