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...become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year by a full percentage point. Spanish companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick airports. But Holguera, whose principal job is managing coherent expansion...
...year, said that the Task Force found it difficult to set central policy.“I might have been hoping for more centralized control, but I wasn’t aware of how deeply decentralized the University is,” Mansbridge says. The committee created an electronic consortium of universities in the Boston area to facilitate spousal hiring in response to data showing that women have a harder time finding new jobs when families relocate.The consortium is the first of its kind in the area and is modelled off of arrangements already in existence in California. The report...
...economics concentrators and 37 percent of government concentrators could say the same.Fully 71 percent of undergrads graduated last year with degrees from the 10 concentrations with at least 50 seniors. So it comes as no surprise that in a 2002 survey of nearly three dozen elite universities by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education leaked last year, Harvard ranked near the bottom in faculty availability, quality of instruction, and quality of advising within majors. This problem plagues most seniors graduating today and most of the underclassmen we leave behind.It wasn’t supposed to be this way; in fact...
...discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The military has refused to sign the pledge. Although Law School Dean Elena Kagan granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard was not a part of FAIR, the consortium of three-dozen law schools that filed suit. But Harvard’s central administration joined six other universities in filing an amicus brief in support of FAIR. Additionally, Kagan and 39 other law professors filed a separate brief arguing that Harvard’s practice of holding all recruiters?...
...final weeks of the campaign Nagin released two headline-grabbing initiatives: a new evacuation plan for the upcoming hurricane season, which begins June 1, and news that a consortium of banks had agreed to extend the city a $150 million line of credit to help plug holes in its operating budget. But the evacuation plan included several conditions, such as transportation and shelter for special needs evacuees, that state officials have not yet approved, and the four banks involved in the city budget deal still have not signed the necessary papers...