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...statisticians can use data - along with follow-up interviews - to decide if the modification helps or hurts the accuracy and consistency of information collected. "We hope this will help us better understand the way people identify with these concepts," says Nicholas Jones, chief of the Census' racial-statistics branch. One change being tested: deleting the word Negro. Others include combining queries about Hispanic origin and race into one question and getting rid of the word race in the question altogether...
...software. First step, in goes Santander's proprietary Parthenon software, which organizes a bank's business by customer instead of by product line, as had been the case at Abbey. "This is the kind of sophisticated information JPMorgan still didn't have, and I saw it at a Santander branch in Chile," says Davide Serra, head of the U.K.'s Algebris hedge fund. The system facilitates cross-selling to existing customers while allowing Santander to cut back-office staff drastically (Santander never cuts the flesh pressers out front). In Abbey's case, total employees dropped from...
...Weston’s governing Board of Selectmen—the executive branch of the town’s government—will not agree to purchase any land in which contaminants remain, according to VanderClock...
...think it's very encouraging," says Dr. Lee Hall, chief of the Parasitology and International Programs branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "It's a big endorsement by MVI for this general approach...
Many of these groups are based in the Boston area, but they are also part of larger charitable networks. If you're not back on campus yet, check to see if they have a branch near...