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...must also expand recruiting to students in disciplines other than nuclear science. Many countries hostile to American interests—Iraq, for example—have also developed comprehensive chemical and biological arsenals, and students in the life sciences or in fields like biochemistry may be able to give our government useful information about the development of these arsenals in their home countries...
...full Faculty will meet today to discuss how to improve undergraduate education, promote international study and expand natural science resources in the face of predicted financial constraints over the next year...
...school (Harvard Law, class of '78), he knows the right people (Marriott CEO Bill Marriott is a friend), and he has managed multibillion-dollar portfolios. But Munoz doesn't simply fit the profile of the traditional corporate director: he's an expert on Latin America, where Marriott hopes to expand aggressively, and he's a CPA who can truly read a financial statement--what's on the lines and what's between them...
...Despite competition, her 300-employee company has managed to expand, using its $10 million in assets to secure small loans from banks. But obtaining financing still challenges her creativity. In 2000 she bought two ailing state-run factories, borrowing heavily from a real estate developer she knew to fund the purchases. Such alliances sometimes involve dangerous trade-offs: last year Qingrong was obligated to guarantee a $200,000 loan made to one of her benefactors, accepting that she would be on the hook if it defaulted. "I was terrified," she says. "If we'd had to repay, we would have...
...economy is to retain its momentum. In addition to promoting lenders such as the C.C.C.B., Beijing this year is expected to raise the interest rates banks can charge. In January the country enacted a new law specifically to promote SMEs, in part by creating a massive fund to expand a nationwide network of loan-guarantee offices that, in effect, allows the government to co-sign loans to creditworthy companies. Similar loan-guarantee schemes have worked well in other countries. Wang Hailin, director of the policy department at the State Economic and Trade Commission, calls the program "one of the most...