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...York City hotel industry's unfortunate decision to keep building: "Occupancy tumbled roughly 15 percent from a year earlier in January, while average room rates fell 15 percent. While much of the weakness reflects softening demand, an industry contact notes that about half the decline in occupancy rates is due to new hotels opening; the total number of hotel rooms in Manhattan is expected to increase by roughly 7,000 (10%) in 2009, or more than triple the net increase...
...Rosneft, Russia's oil major, and another $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash, but in crude - 300,000 barrels a day from the huge east Siberian oil field. That's about 4% of China's current total demand for crude, secured on very favorable terms. Over the 20-year life of the deal, Beijing will effectively be paying about $20 per barrel. Crude prices, which last summer peaked at more than $140 per barrel, now sit just above...
Twenty years ago, when Lula was a firebrand unionist, that sentiment might have been dismissed as dreamy rhetoric. Not today. However the crisis ends, there is widespread agreement that developing economies such as Brazil, China and India will be crucial to ensuring that demand remains buoyant. Lula, too, has changed. These days he's a pragmatist who is as popular inside corporate boardrooms as he is in the favelas. On March 17, he will meet new U.S. President Barack Obama - a fellow moderate liberal who shares Lula's passion for green-energy ventures - in the White House. He will...
...Morris says. “All these numbers tell stories.”For proponents of the quantitative approach to sports, finding new numbers to tell those stories with is the goal that they constantly strive to reach. And for people like Swanay, Rosenfeld, and Morris, the growing demand for sports statistical analysis ensures that they can use the their abilities with numbers to explain the games they love.“It was liberating that I had accumulated skills that I could use in the sports world,” Swanay says. “Plus, I was much...
...objectives. “Obviously with existing courses we need to work with the most recent syllabus with whatever revision the faculty member suggests,” said Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris. “For newer courses we don’t demand a full syllabus but a narrative.” For Folklore and Mythology Professor Maria Tatar, the review process for Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature” was surprisingly short. “In terms of content, I was quite surprised that were really...