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...pointed out that India has been changing its domestic rules in a bid to attract more foreign investment, a tactic which he labels "a direct product of being envious of how much investment China is getting." The one caveat: while he expects the Chinese economy to grow by a factor of 20 between now and 2050, India will be 50 times bigger - but will still lose...
Alex Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center and a former media reporter for the Times who has written a history of the paper, said Okrent’s status as a founding father of fantasy baseball was not a factor in his selection as one of ten fellows for this academic year out of a pool of 75 applicants...
...There’s two aspects of it...chronological and economic,” Church said. “We will try to drive [the price] down by another factor of 10 within the next year...
...paid to land earmarks; Abramoff used them to get money for his tribal clients. The number of those earmarks mushroomed from close to 2,000 in a highway bill in 1998 to more than 6,000 in that bill last year. Practitioners say the boom is a major factor in the doubling of the number of lobbyists in Washington over the past five years, to almost 35,000, and Bush points to the popular practice as one of the reasons curtailing federal spending is so difficult...
Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06 said that the belief that race is used as an admissions factor influenced his decision not to provide ethnic information on the medical school applications that he has been submitting this year...