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...temptation for some legislators is to assess these endowments as a way to help fund state programs,” he said. “Then there is a sentiment that these universities can afford that, but I don’t think that’s fair...
...U.P.S., FedEx and Wal-Mart can tell in real time where a package is anywhere in the world, but FEMA, despite its multibillion-dollar budget, couldn’t track many of its assets during its Katrina response…” Similarly, when Congress gathered to assess the costs of Katrina in October 2005, McCain was quick to cut budget spending to accommodate the billions of dollars required for emergency relief efforts. He was constructive and supportive of the Bush administration, but notably did not attempt to raise more funds at the time. Both instances show that while...
...waves of defaulting loans as factories fold. Although Chinese banks during the current boom have been able to reduce their unusually high proportion of nonperforming loans carried on their books, declining corporate earnings will diminish borrowers' ability to repay their debts. While it's difficult to assess the overall exposure of banks to the manufacturing sector, it's easy to imagine lenders getting caught in a Chinese-style credit crisis if manufacturing contracts sharply...
...screwed up,” she said. “There may be room within an organization to parse out these differences, but the larger climate may not care.” Ebrahim said that one of the biggest obstacles for nonprofits is their reliance on numbers to assess success. Ebrahim concluded his speech with a quote from Einstein to highlight this “general bias”: “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted...
...recognized that there had been some progress on the issue, in the form of a motion on the agenda to “develop a reporting system of data to assess student achievement in the Cambridge Public Schools in alignment with our goals...