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...addition to solving the immediate financial problems, the plan more importantly moves the system towards improved socio-economic status (SES) balance and puts in place measures which will lead to the narrowing of the achievement gap and improve the education of all of our elementary students,” the plan reads...
...other parts of Asia--the benefits of a world-market economy, globalization, were also coming under pressure. This unease rocked Seattle when, starting on Nov. 29, 1999, antiglobalist protesters ran amuck at a World Trade Organization meeting. Demonstrators indiscriminately trashed icons of capitalism, from McDonald's to the Gap, and the message got across: globalism doesn't float all boats...
Warren Buffett has been busy buying private companies, including The Pampered Chef, a kitchenware retailer, and apparel maker Garan (of Garanimals fame). That's promising. It suggests a value gap between the private and public markets because Buffett finds most common stocks still overvalued. Meanwhile, private-asset funds are a contrarian's delight: net new investment in venture-capital funds, which mainly seed technology and medical start-ups, plunged to $1.9 billion last year (the least since '81) amid investment losses that roughly tracked the public markets. Yet over three years and longer, these funds have outperformed stocks. "The tourists...
...seamen bomb Saddam Hussein's bunker and other targets in Baghdad, in danger of going dark? According to knowledgeable U.S. officials, a highly classified $17 to $19 billion replacement system, supposed to be completed around 2005, has gotten so far off schedule that the military could suffer an "imagery gap" as aging satellites in the current system flicker out. The so-called Future Imagery Architecture program, managed by Boeing Co. - and nicknamed "FIASCO," a pun on its acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget even as the aerospace giant has had to scale back some promised...
That would be the story of the night. Harvard closed the gap to one, but failed to net the equalizer as the Bears would once again extend their lead. It was a contrast of styles—with the Crimson using their quickness to counteract Brown’s physical play—but neither tempo had the advantage...