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This is the Massachusetts State Seal, adopted by Governor John Hancock in 1780. It appears all around campus—on the side of Lowell Lecture Hall or the base of the Anderson footbridge. Yet the seal may soon find itself sharing company with the Betsy Ross flag and the...
Employee stock-purchase plans (ESPPs) are also thriving, and those cut out of options plans should consider agitating for an ESPP if their firm doesn't have one. An ESPP typically allows you to buy stock commission-free at a 5% discount from market.
The practice of giving letter grades to bonds to reflect their riskiness was pioneered by John Moody in 1909. But the industry took its current form only in the early 1970s. That's when Moody's and its competitors switched from selling research to investors to charging bond issuers to...
The number of graduating high-school seniors is set to decline after peaking at 2.9 million next academic year, according to a report published by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and cited in The New York Times.
The 92-page report was only made public when maverick Dutch Green Party MEP Paul van Buitenen broke the rules to put a summary on his website. Van Buitenen, whose whistle-blowing in 1999 helped bring down the entire European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the...