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...Family in America Today, what is significant about contemporary American families, compared with those of other nations, is their combination of "frequent marriage, frequent divorce" and the high number of "short-term co-habiting relationships." Taken together, these forces "create a great turbulence in American family life, a family flux, a coming and going of partners on a scale seen nowhere else. There are more partners in the personal lives of Americans than in the lives of people of any other Western country...
...layoffs loom.But Brainard yesterday would only say that HCL had been asked to plan for a 15 percent budget cut this coming year, as have other departments throughout FAS. She said the $12 million figure is incorrect, and that both budget numbers and staffing levels have been "in flux."Brainard also flatly denied recent rumors that administrators are considering changing Lamont Library's hours or limiting its accessibility to certain houses as part of HCL's budget cuts.Brainard has come to represent the sole public voice of HCL, with staffers approached by The Crimson in person or over the phone...
Highlight Reel: 1. On cocaine and heroin trafficking: "The $50 billion global cocaine market is undergoing seismic shifts. Purity levels and seizures are down, prices are up, and consumption patterns are in flux. This may explain the gruesome upsurge of violence in countries like Mexico ... While 41 % of the world's cocaine is being seized (mostly in Colombia), only one-fifth (19%) of all opiates are being intercepted ... In 2007, Iran seized 84% of the world's opium and 28% of all heroin...
...like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid by the government medical plan for senior citizens, which generally run about 30% lower than what private insurers pay health providers. (However, the HELP version may well be in flux; a version of the legislative language filed Tuesday contained no mention of a public plan at all.) (Read "The Five Big Health-Care Dilemmas...
...With next year’s budget still in flux and the University’s financial situation bleak, administrators say they have been put in a tough situation—having to cut back on House life while simultaneously promising to bolster...