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...cattle, because these days it needs a lot of fatted calves: its prodigal sons are coming home in record numbers. Long resigned to losing its best and brightest to the bright lights and big cities of Asia, Europe and North America, the country is suddenly witnessing a reverse brain drain. The global economic downturn, combined with post-9/11 anxiety, is driving many expatriate Kiwis back to their antipodean homeland. It helps that New Zealand's economy, like Australia's, is bucking the global trend and growing at around...
...course didn’t drain well at all,” Chiampa said. “There was a constant mist and it was really soggy...
...cattle, because these days it needs a lot of fatted calves: its prodigal sons are coming home in record numbers. Long resigned to losing its best and brightest to the bright lights and big cities of Asia, Europe and North America, the country is suddenly witnessing a reverse brain drain. The global economic downturn, combined with post-9/11 anxiety, is driving many expatriate Kiwis back to their antipodean homeland. It helps that New Zealand's economy, like Australia's, is bucking the global trend and growing at around 4%. Last year produced a 13% increase in the number...
...crux of university-community conflict is often over the tax exemption these institutions enjoy. Whether the tax exemption of colleges and universities actually constitutes a fiscal drain is highly debatable. These institutions attract large numbers of taxable uses, and adjacent residential and commercial values are elevated by their presence...
...universities were really a drain, Cambridge would be in dire straits. Yet, the city is among the most fiscally healthy in Massachusetts, with a $7.5 billion tax assessment, a triple-A bond rating and the highest per pupil expenditure on public education in the state...