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...said it was important that the committee plan for “a long-term budget,” that takes all grades into account...
...Buttressing that sort of attitude are the limited ways in which Chinese citizens can put their nest eggs to work. Bank interest rates remain regulated and miserly - offering less than 1% return on a standard savings account - and China has only just begun to open the door to its citizens being able to invest legally abroad. For most savers, that leaves real estate or the stock market - and if an apartment is the equivalent of a bar of gold, the stock market is the equivalent of a casino. Generally speaking, the Chinese love to gamble, but they love their bars...
Administrators will take into account the impact of last year’s recession on donors when determining fundraising goals, Faust said. But given the time elapsed since the last capital campaign, the University needs to move forward on a capital campaign despite recent economic turbulence, she added...
...Particularly keen on conversation are the elderly, who account for more than one-fifth of the Japanese population and are increasingly living alone. Customers 65 and up make up a majority of Table-Mono's business. "This is one of the main reasons for [Table-Mono's] success," says Yamazaki. "Many older people can't walk to the supermarket; some have no friends and stay alone in the house all day." (See historical pictures in "Japan and the World...
...Green jobs are hardly the economic cure-all they are often made out to be. They currently account for only about 0.5% of the U.S. workforce, and plenty of the industry's job growth is likely to happen overseas. China is already the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels. But the model provided by green-energy players is the right one: create new products and new markets, and watch new jobs flow. Without the personal computer, we wouldn't have Google and its 20,000 employees. Without everyday low-cost pricing, we wouldn't have Walmart...