Word: contrasts
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...health-insurance industry, by contrast, has largely divested tobacco holdings since the 1990s and has offered to compromise with lawmakers in the health-care debate. In a letter to Congress on March 24, several health insurers indicated they would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Perhaps the next step will be for life and disability insurers to look at their tobacco stocks and, as they say, kick the habit...
...that his teams will outperform their market indices this fiscal year. According to Mendillo, the portfolio deleveraging process initiated prior to her arrival had been “accelerated” during the course of the financial crisis, leaving HMC with a positive cash situation today—in contrast to the company’s historic negative 5 percent cash reserve. But she says that HMC is now aggressively analyzing ways to carefully reinvest that cash to take advantage of opportunities for significant returns and diversification over the next few years. “The financial crisis has created...
...concentrators, only one Economics course in Gen Ed so far was designed specifically for the new curriculum.Like their colleagues in Littauer, according to Smail, historians find Gen Ed’s intellectual structure to be problematic—particularly because the lack of a straightforward historical requirement, in contrast to the Core’s two Historical Study categories. Adam G. Beaver, the History department’s outgoing assistant director of undergraduate studies, says that he finds Gen Ed to be an “inferior, warmed-over version of the Core,” which—while...
...opinions when it comes to issues that affect Harvard. Indeed, as I stopped to think about it, I realized that nearly all of us have been silent for years on issues that go to the heart of the University. It’s a reticence that stands in stark contrast to how we act when expressing our views on politics or society, and it’s one that affects professors just as much as students...
...According to a recent Gallup poll, less than a third of Saudi's 28 million inhabitants approve of U.S. leadership, a sharp contrast to the close cooperation between the two nations' governments. The Saudi kingdom prohibits the study of evolution, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Western music or Western philosophy in its universities, according to the U.S. State Department. The public practice of non-Muslim religions is prohibited, and the Shi'ite minority, which makes up 8% to 10% of the population, faces significant official discrimination...