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...meantime, just as central banks in the U.S. and euro zone have pumped cheap cash into money markets to boost liquidity in recent weeks, the Bank of England announced plans to inject almost $30 billion into the U.K. system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks were charging each other to borrow. The longer those rates remain high, the more mortgage providers will be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point...
...from 37.4% to 32.4% between 2000 and 2004. As Mogae's spokesman Jeff Ramsay says: "HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence." In 2006, ACHAP was one of 10 winners of a World Business Award given by the International Chamber of Commerce to honor businesses that alleviate poverty and boost progress toward the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...
...corporation hoping to operate in the developing world. "Simply complying with regulations is not enough," he says. "Society expects more." Healthy societies are good for all kinds of business. "You could say that one reason we do this kind of work is that in the long run healthy people boost economic development, which will create robust markets for Merck products," says Sturchio. "Health leads to wealth, and there is a long-term benefit to our business." Nevertheless, Sturchio contends that Merck's primary motivation for its CSR work is "because it's the right thing to do. It makes...
Rock and freedom--if not necessarily sex and drugs--got a boost in Lebanon in 2005, during what outsiders called the Cedar Revolution. Huge crowds gathered in central Beirut to demand an end to the Syrian occupation and the country's sectarian divisions. But the creative and intellectual frenzy that accompanied the Syrian withdrawal was cut short after the country's ruling sectarian political class co-opted the Cedar Revolution and turned Lebanon into a battlefield between regional superpowers. Spurred by last summer's war with Israel and by the current struggle between Iran and the U.S. over Lebanon...
...penalty-corner score by captain Devon Shapiro, and the Crimson pushed its lead to 2-0.Penalty corners played a large role in Harvard’s dominance of the first half. Seven penalty shots were awarded to the Crimson, all of which came in the first period, giving a necessary boost in scoring opportunities.However, the goal that would have made the game 3-0 in Harvard’s favor was called off by the referees for being too high, sparking a Pacific scoring run that made the game too close for comfort for the Crimson.“It looked...