Word: collectedness
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Since 2008 Grameen has collected 1,700 borrowers in New York City, and last June it opened a second branch in Omaha, Neb. Other cities in its sights include San Francisco, Boston and Charlotte, N.C. - anywhere local businesspeople raise seed capital and a bank will host low-cost savings accounts...
With the national unemployment rate nearing 7 percent—a figure not seen in the U.S. since 1993—several states have seen their unemployment insurance trust funds shrink to dangerously low levels, with some states already taking out federal loans to pay unemployment benefits. But Massachusetts?...
People’s beliefs about the health effects of “third-hand smoke” are positively correlated to the extent to which smoking in their homes is prohibited, according to a recent Harvard study. “Third-hand smoke,” a term coined...
Although it's our home galaxy, the Milky Way is not an easy entity to peg. Drawing a map of it has been likened to describing the town you're in when you've never ventured beyond the confines of your bedroom. In 1958, Jan Oort became the first to...
2. On Charles Marsala, mayor of Atherton, California, the wealthiest zip code in America: "We moved our conversation into the main house, and as we talked Marsala walked me down a hall of famous photographs, many of them of his apparently legendary backyard parties, often showing guests as giant chess...