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Vikram Akula, for one, thinks money-making and good works can be mutually beneficial. Akula runs SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinancier, which is at the forefront of the new-money trend. Last year SKS sold an $11.5 million stake to the private-equity shop Sequoia Capital in a first-of-its-kind deal. Talk of a projected 23% return on equity snapped many financiers to attention...
...Council, led by Ryan A. Petersen ’08, brought the issue of calendar reform to the forefront of its agenda. Most significantly, its proposal sought to push fall semester final exams to before winter break...
...This wasn’t something we were concerned about, it just wasn’t in the forefront of our thinking,” said then-Crimson Managing Editor George H. Watson ’58, who journeyed to Arkansas and eventually wrote a five-part series for The Crimson documenting the historic desegregation of the school...
...PEACE plan from 12 to 1,200 - a reasonable estimate, given that 1,700 pastors were in attendance and many actually head networks of congregations - then the number of PEACE missionaries would jump from roughly 2,000 a year to 200,000, vaulting the network to the forefront of the missionary field. Nor has Warren confined his invitation to those pastors in attendance. He is sending DVDs to the 30,000 churches that have participated in his rigorous "40 Days of Purpose" programs. And it was streamed from his website in hopes of capturing some of the half-million church...
...This election year, the economy is again at the forefront of voters' minds. The misery index is no longer the problem; at 9% and change, it's miles below the 20% of late 1980. But Americans have a new menu of economic woes - among them a real estate crash, a credit crisis, a broken health-care system and nagging job insecurity. Poll after poll shows a vast majority convinced that the economy and the country are headed in the wrong direction...