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Clark's emphasis on faculty research is currently centered on the school's international legal studies programs. And his plans to bolster area studies centers have been bolstered with the faculty's recent vote to offer a tenured post to a top Chinese law expert, William Alford...
Goldin would also bolster the department's offerings in economic history, professors said...
...landlords who can't raise their rents have a strong incentive to let their apartments deteriorate in order to bolster profit margins and encourage their rent-controlled tenants to move...
...effort to bolster its coverage of Asian politics, the Government Department announced this week that it was beginning a search for candidates for a new endowed professorship to study China and its relationship with foreign countries...
...Major U.S. banks have tried to prepare for the day when they would have to acknowledge the hopelessness of collecting most of their troubled loans to developing countries. Last week that process gave way to a rush of reality as three major banking companies set aside funds to bolster their loan-loss reserves, a move that will give them stiff deficits now but help insulate them from defaults in the future. Manufacturers Hanover added $950 million to its reserves, Chase Manhattan $1.15 billion, and J.P. Morgan $2 billion. To shore up its finances, Manny Hanny also agreed to sell...