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...University’s reliable failure to meet its stated aim of spending five percent of its endowment has drawn attention not just from outside critics but from Mass. Hall as well. According to former University president Lawrence H. Summers, persistently frugal spending habits became a particular point of concern...
...Grassley and his Democratic counterpart, Max S. Baucus of Montana, expressed concern that soaring tuition costs have made it difficult for lower and middle-income families to pay for college education, and that endowments have grown faster than spending on financial...
...temporary and do not build it into their longer-term plans for setting wages and prices, then the inflation created by a shock to oil prices will tend to fade relatively quickly. Some indicators of longer-term inflation expectations have risen in recent months, which is a significant concern for the Federal Reserve. We will need to monitor that situation closely. However, changes in long-term inflation expectations have been measured in tenths of a percentage point this time around rather than in whole percentage points, as appeared to be the case in the mid-1970s. Importantly, we see little...
...early decisions arrived in the mail in mid-December, high school seniors had to decide whether to send in their Harvard application by January 1. And though the admissions office expressed concern over the number of applications only a month prior to the regular decision deadline, over 27,000 students applied to Harvard—an 18 percent increase from the previous year...
...commonly used argument against compensated kidney donation is that people in poverty would be most likely to sell their organs. While perhaps true, this concern neglects the fact that we already allow people with low-incomes to make their own decisions regarding the sale of their sperm, eggs and blood. Both kidney and egg donation are invasive procedures that come with associated risks. The decision whether or not to sell an organ would also not be made in a vacuum and one would expect medical professionals to fully present the associated (albeit minor) risks of kidney donation before surgery...