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...Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has stressed the significance of the six FAS working groups in closing the school’s projected $110 million annual deficit, the committees have made mixed progress in their task of drafting the highly anticipated budgetary proposals aimed at closing that gap...
...dollar borrowing), is now hovering at slightly less than 1%. That rock-bottom rate stands in stark contrast to the 6.5-7% rate of interest one can get from a short-term money market bill in Indonesia, where the 5-year government bond currently yields roughly 9%. The wide gap between the carrying costs of the two currencies is what is fueling the dollar-rupiah carry trade, analysts...
...Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here,” Duncan pointed out to the AP. Many studies indicate that it is during this prolonged summer that the gap between the performance of higher- and lower-income students widens most significantly...
...National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Co. estimates that the country has some 15.7 million bbl. of gasoline - about four months' worth - stockpiled in tankers on land and off its Persian Gulf coast. After BP and Reliance halted exports to Iran, Chinese state-owned oil companies filled the gap, supplying about one-third of Iran's gasoline imports as of last month, according to the Financial Times. Lawrence Eagles, head of commodities research at JPMorgan, told the paper last week that Iran was importing 30,000 bbl. to 40,000 bbl. a day from Chinese companies. And Malaysia's state...
...arrest and eventual transfer to the U.S. "To the French mind, this has made Polanski a combination of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Dreyfus - the victim of systematic persecution," Stanger says. "To the American mind, he's proof that no one is above the law." That's a perception gap as wide as the Atlantic...