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...pause on all vacant positions yesterday. While no further changes have been announced, University spokesman John D. Longbrake wrote in an e-mailed statement that “the Harvard community needs to be prepared to absorb unprecedented endowment losses and to plan for a period of greater financial constraint.” BROWN UNIVERSITY Brown has instituted a hiring pause through January of all administrative and staff positions as a result of voluntary turnover...
...sufficient. The Treasury may yet go back to Congress begging for additional dollars from a new administration if the initial allowance doesn't yield sufficient liquidity. And having fewer junky assets on their books may not cure banks of stinginess in the current climate of constraint. "Once confidence is destroyed, it's not easily restored," says Angel...
...time constraint may have led Obama to sacrifice his famed rhetorical flourishes for cold, hard facts. He told reporters in Illinois earlier this week that he isn't aiming for the polished, soaring language that is his hallmark, but rather a more nuts and bolts dissection of the choice voters face. "This is going to be a more workmanlike speech. I'm not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric, I'm much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives," Obama said. He also did his best to dampen expectations...
...generally been cooperative with the commission, its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which supervised the rocket boosters, and Morton Thiokol, the contractor that manufactures them, were less so. It took an FBI agent working for the commission to discover, while perusing papers at Thiokol, that a ''flight constraint'' had been declared on July 10, 1985, for the booster-joint seal--and then routinely waived for seven successive launches, including Challenger's last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission discovered that the booster-seal problem was not merely a low-level worry; top NASA officials...
...arming a putative republic of his own—manipulating the media and muzzling opposition parties. A man whose heart our own president once professed to “know,” Putin’s political ambition seems to know no inward bounds—or external constraint. Yet the Russian premier’s name hardly appears among the White House’s “axis of evil...