Word: allowable
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...Porsche denied any responsibility for the stock market tumult caused by its announcement. And it sought to assuage its critics by promising to sell shares totaling about 5% of VW back to the market to allow banks to close their positions - at a handsome profit, of course, because Porsche first started buying VW shares when they cost $45. No one in Germany is crying any tears for the hedge fund losses, of course, but the episode has alerted many to the fact that casino capitalism isn't confined to Wall Street. And presumably some badly burned high rollers...
...child’s needs. By creating more thorough IEPs, schools could identify which children would, in the short-term, be best suited to the atmosphere currently found in private education and which students benefit from being in public schools’ environments. This distinction would then allow the schools to, over time, institute programs that are responsive to different students’ needs. One suggestion that reaches outside of the classroom is encouraging social services agencies to conduct early screenings for disabilities. Due to the increasing belief in critical periods of development, researchers say that early diagnosis?...
...more politically sensitive issue - on both sides of the Pacific - is whether China will continue to allow its currency to appreciate. The RMB is up almost 20% against the U.S. dollar since July of 2005, and that's part of the reason small, low-end Chinese exporters have seen their profits dwindle. A Chinese businessman asked Paulson after his speech whether the renminbi had appreciated sufficiently against the dollar. Paulson didn't answer directly, but in Beijing they know what the answer is: you bet it has. With Chinese growth slowing significantly and the economic pain spreading, "any further liberalization...
...long been a fan of the Sonos music system, a collection of small, cigar-box-sized devices that attach to any stereo in my home and allow me to wirelessly stream digital music. I couple it with the music subscription service, Rhapsody, and get access to some 5 million songs - virtually anything I want to hear, whenever I want to hear...
...training by Jordanian police was supported and funded by the U.S. State Department, with a U.S. security coordinator, General Keith Dayton, acting as adviser to the Palestinians - is to persuade skeptical Israelis that Palestinians can ensure security inside the West Bank, a first step in building trust that would allow Israel to turn over control to the Palestinian Authority as part of any peace agreement. So far, the plan has succeeded: The streets are safer for ordinary Palestinians, and Israelis have more confidence in their Palestinian security counterparts. But it's precisely because this unit forms part of a plan...