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...Rudenstine said that, considering Harvard’s soaring $29 billion endowment, the president must identify specific academic needs and convey those priorities to donors...
...Chinese government, however subtly, is clearly trying to convey the message that the stock market isn't a casino, it's a long-term way to build wealth. CCTV, the government-controlled television network, ran a long interview this week with a pleasant, gray-haired retiree named Guo Xiufeng. She says she now has $130,000 in savings thanks to the stock market. She started investing more than 10 years ago with $2,500, she says, "and every time the market went down a bit, I would just buy a little more." Everybody got that? When the market went down...
...name poetically suggests ("21_21" was devised to convey a visual ability that goes beyond mere 20/20), Design Sight intends to be forward-looking if not avant-garde. Its first exhibition-organized by Fukasawa and running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the theme of chocolate (the next show is planned along the theme of water). The results are a toothsome twist on product design and consumer desire. The artist HIMAA has made a chocolate key with a bite mark that turns the lock; the design team of Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka Nakamura, professionally known...
...unemployment rate was 10.4% in 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (it's 8% among non-veterans of the same age group). Young vets say the military's job-placement programs are well-meaning but often ineffective. They say they don't know how to convey the benefits of their military experience to civilian employers...
...lovely line, and for once her voice, a flat Midwestern twang that sometimes twinges harsh, seemed just right. The crowd, which included a disproportionate number of mothers who had brought their daughters, was very much at ease with the Senator as she managed to convey her usual A-student policy virtuosity in an informal, accessible way. "Wouldn't it be great to have a President who can speak for an hour without notes?" former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a presidential candidate turned Clinton supporter, told the next crowd, assembled in Red Oak despite biblical rains. It was a classic reaction...