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Changes in a school's U.S. News & World Report ranking can affect that school's admission statistics, according to a recent study by Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations Ronald G. Ehrenberg and James Monks of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education...
Newsflash for linguists: Apparently, there is no German translation for "unlimited guarantee." And if you?re a foreign company that happens to forget this little rule of commerce, or offer your customers a little promotional gift, a consortium of 1,600 German businesses will be happy to take you to court to keep you in line. The latest defendant in the German war against "unfair competition" is Wisconsin-based clothier Lands? End. The charge? That Lands? End?s unlimited money-back guarantee ? inviting consumers to return any of the company?s products, at any time, for any reason ? is illegal...
...England whose palmtops are especially popular outside the U.S. The 12.5-oz. device is the Psion 5mx ($549, list) and runs on a clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal...
Some criminologists, including Alfred Blumstein, director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, say Donohue and Levitt don't adequately factor in other variables, including the strong economy and crime-prevention measures. But if their research is proved correct, the duo say, crime stats should slide further over the next 20 years...
South Africa passed a law last year that gives the Ministry of Health discretion to authorize parallel importing and compulsory licensing in critical situations. But a consortium of 40 drug companies--about a third of them American--filed a suit that has kept the law tied...