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...tenfold this year to quench demand. To pay for such expansion, Vycon's executives decided to sell shares to the public. Too tiny to trade on New York City's NASDAQ, the company focused instead on another market catering to ambitious upstarts like Vycon. London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) was a "global market for small companies," says Vycon president and CEO Tony Aoun, which would "put the company in a good light." When the business listed on AIM in March, investors poured in $18 million, fulfilling Vycon's best hopes...
...G.O.P. and Democratic Party are looking askance at that proposal for fear of aggrieving the traditional early decision states Iowa (which holds its caucus on Jan. 14) and New Hampshire (Jan. 22). And then there is Texas. At the moment, three similar bipartisam bills in the state legislature aim to move the Texas primary from March to February. But some Texans aren?t too sure it is wise to rush in with the crowd...
...from it should be circulated as early as this week, according to Mendelsohn. Ryan, who is a member of the three-person committee charged with drafting the legislation, said the group tried to preserve the language used in passages of the general education report. The committee’s aim, she said, is to “provide a document to focus discussion.” —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu
...furor comes as preparations begin for another visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She plans to meet with Abbas twice. If her aim was to stabilize Palestinian politics, she might ask Abbas what he was thinking. But given the dim view the Americans and Israelis hold of the unity government, and their positive view of Dahlan, she might also be tempted to congratulate...
...introduce young people in public schools to science so that they would have an interest in the sciences as big as their interest for the humanities,” said Counter. Counter said the Foundation’s science conference began more than 15 years ago with the aim of encouraging more women and minorities in the sciences. In 2006, Albert Einstein’s name was added to the conference to honor the physicist’s work lecturing at black colleges and speaking against racism and anti-Semitism. Muriel Payan ’08, the conference?...