Word: allowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...slashing its dividend 87% - in part, said CEO Jamie Dimon, to enable it to buy back as quickly as possible the $25 billion in preferred shares the government purchased from the company in October. That would free JPMorgan from government-imposed pay limits and other pressure from Washington and allow its shareholders to profit more fully from a financial rebound. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...hike in the gas tax will have several benefits to those living in Massachusetts. The money generated will serve to cover the deficit in the transportation budget and allow needed maintenance operations to take place. A large portion of the funds will go toward maintaining the roads and bridges that make up the Turnpike, but the MBTA would also benefit. Its fares could be maintained at current prices, and all cuts in service would become unnecessary...
...support of less government regulation led to the collapse of Enron, the Madoff scandal, the housing crisis, the credit crisis, a deteriorating environment, global warming, and other ills. Managed capitalism can be wonderful, but if we allow the greedy to do whatever they want, we will again face sweatshops, 70-hour work weeks for the poor, lower wages, and an even greater economic mess than we currently face...
...region’s constancy would allow for a one-time vaccine that would not be out-moded by rapid changes in viral structure. Current flu vaccines must change every year to accommodate mutations within the virus...
...last year approved state financial aid for students at schools that, like Morris Brown, are on the road to reaccreditation; it's one reason Pritchett has set an enrollment goal of 1,000 students in 2014, which would translate to a significant tuition revenue increase. Whether similar fudging will allow the school to benefit from the stimulus bill is still unclear, but Pritchett says the economic climate has something of a silver lining. "From the brink of disaster," he says, "you have hope...