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...earlier in the week. Europe suffered similar shrinkage as London's FTSE 100 slipped 3.5% by noon, while Paris' CAC 40 and Frankfurt's Dax both shedded 3.1%. Some of that slippage, market analysts said, came from profit-taking on gains posted earlier in the week. But the major factor came from broader concern and confusion about just how bad - or not - the expected general economic downturn will...
...course it is - it's like giving an alcoholic more booze," says Gabriel Stein, director of Lombard Street Research in London, noting that while the degree of debt varies by nation, it's become a troubling factor for households and companies throughout the developed world. "Banks are being told to lend money to people who have already surpassed their borrowing capacity - and being told to do so under the same terms applied during the credit boom. It's not a good idea." But so far, no one seems to have come up with a better...
...next month’s election, such as race, gender, and media bias, also played into Stuyvesant’s student government race.Vanessa Charubhumi, who was Zisiadis’s running mate and is now a freshman at Johns Hopkins, said that she saw how race was a factor in the campaign but that gender was less of an issue.REFLECTIONS OF AN EX-CANDIDATETwo and a half years out, Zisiadis, who at Harvard is active in the juggling club and the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, had some insights about the film. He said he wonders if the similarities...
...winning 9-1 streak at the end of the fifth.Many of the game’s statistics favored Harvard: .228 hitting percentage, 61 kills, and 11 blocks compared with Yale’s .187, 54 and nine. According to McKinley, however, the progression of the game was the deciding factor. “We could help ourselves a lot by coming out stronger,” McKinley said. “If we went into the first point of the first game playing like we did in the third and fourth, we would’ve won it in three...
Voters in the national poll were asked about that very issue, and overwhelmingly - by more than 9 to 1 - they said Obama's race won't be a factor in how they vote. Even among black voters, only 1 in 6 said they would take Obama's race into account. Still, the question hovers over the campaign. A controversial recent survey by the Associated Press pushed white participants to react to a list of negative racial stereotypes. One-third of them put credence in at least one of the unpleasant generalizations about blacks. After some complicated statistical legerdemain...