Word: bankes
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...Career Advancement has stepped up its efforts to promote public service, according to Hessler, the Office’s director. Since last fall, it has brought in more career discussion panels and career fairs related to public service. Hessler says it has strengthened its connections with the World Bank, the United Nations, the U.S. government, and public sector consulting firms.Students have established a fall and spring “Day of Service” each semester, a day of volunteering in which Ellwood and some faculty have participated. And the Student Public Service Collaborative is pushing for more financial...
...ailing, Depression-weary nation needed in 1933. After delivering one of the most famous Inaugural speeches in presidential history - does the phrase "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" sound familiar? - Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped calm a financial panic that was quickly spiraling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the "fireside chat" tradition, called Congress into a three-month-long special session and passed 15 pieces of major...
Rotten economy? Not if you're in the business of radically overhauling American government. Between the Obama Administration and Congress, the assembly line for Big Ideas is running triple shifts, cranking out stimulus plans, bank-rescue plans, foreclosure-prevention plans, health-care-reform plans, alternative-energy plans, auto-industry-reorganization plans, climate-protection plans, Afghanistan-war plans, Pentagon-spending plans - and that's just the first 100 days...
...Which was more likely, they asked - that "Linda is a bank teller" or that "Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement." Overwhelmingly, subjects chose the second answer, even though simple logic shows that each additional fact makes the answer less likely to be true...
...Half of the land-borne U.S.-Mexico trade comes through Laredo," says Keith R. Phillips, a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Much of it heads north along Interstate Highway 35, through Austin, Dallas and on through the heartland. And it's not only the land ports along the border that are conduits for trade and travelers, Phillips points out. The Port of Houston has been one of the fastest-growing ports in the country, with a significant amount of trade from Mexico, and trade also flows into inland ports like Fort Worth's Alliance Texas Logistics...