Word: dollarize
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...consider the many disincentives to work that have become entrenched in the tax and welfare systems. The withdrawal of certain (means-tested) benefits as income rises leads to high effective marginal tax rates. For some families in the middle-income tiers, it means they lose 70? for each extra dollar earned. So a second earner, usually a woman, is discouraged from seeking work. That may be O.K. for Howard's coffee mums, but for many women with education and skills, there is no effective choice at all. A tight labor market and an ageing society need their talents; if they...
...hovered around HMC in the past few years. The warm reception received by El-Erian was in stark contrast to a similar speech given by former HMC chief Jack R. Meyer in Lamont Library slightly over two years ago. Meyer was greeted outside by protestors outraged by multi-million dollar salaries paid to endowment managers, and faced questions about HMC’s external management and compensation structures. El-Erian, who has told The Crimson that both will remain unchanged, faced a welcoming audience as he expressed bold views. “What I’m going...
...this has all played out, in such a short amount of time, is even more surprising.”A call for comment placed to Viswanathan’s cellphone yesterday was not returned.LETTER OF THE LAWWhether Viswanathan is allowed to keep her share of the reported half-million-dollar advance depends on the terms of the contract, according to Justin Hughes, the director of the intellectual property law program at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law. Alloy Entertainment, a book-packaging firm that helped the sophomore develop her novel, reportedly received part of the advance.Pietsch told...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...
...serious news that merits space in the paper. It only makes us come across as petty and jealous, they say. But what these critics must remember is that Viswanathan is a public figure, and her book is a work publicly available to everyone. Five hundred thousand dollars is a serious amount of money, and plagiarism is an even more serious offense. With the press she received in the run-up to publication, she has become a prominent figure at Harvard and in the book-publishing industry. The Crimson normally does not report on plagiarism committed in the classroom, but there...