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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...
...international students come to the United States planning to go back to their own countries to serve. Some countries, he added, even give these students scholarships, in the hopes of encouraging their returns. Beyond his desire to be with his family, Posavec said his Harvard degree is in higher demand back home than in the United States. “Back home with a Harvard degree you can pretty much get a job anywhere in any bank,” Posavec said...
...China is not only America’s largest creditor, but it is also America’s only real global competitor. American demand for Chinese goods has fueled growth in Chinese manufacturing, and Chinese savings, in turn, have enabled America to live beyond her means. Yet this symbiotic economic relationship has, until recently, only made the headlines when it’s a matter of defective toys and toxic foodstuffs. Although at earlier points in our history we woefully mistreated African Americans and Native Americans, we lecture China about its treatment of Tibet and sell arms to what...
...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...