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...have introduced tax reforms to encourage consumer spending, and others are pumping up demand with public expenditure. But the key driver of the recovery is easy money. Interest rates remain low, credit demand is up, and banks - the best of which have cleaned up their loan portfolios - are feeling generous again...
...Officially, Seoul denies any of it happened, but the spies themselves are starting to talk. Ex-spies complain that the government promised them generous rewards, then reneged. The reason: Seoul didn't want to admit it was employing the same dirty tricks as Pyongyang. In March, several hundred ex-spies demanding compensation and official recognition set fire to canisters of liquefied petroleum gas at a busy intersection in Seoul. Angry protesters wearing red headbands held another demonstration in front of the Ministry of National Defense earlier this month, including a man who stripped in front of riot police. Another protester...
Fortuyn, 54, was a man for confrontation, not consensus. He wanted to re-establish Dutch border controls and let in refugees only from Britain, Denmark, France and Germany. He sought to dial back the generous disability scheme that supports the roughly 15% of Dutch workers who claim they can't work for medical reasons. At least a quarter of the state bureaucracy should be laid off, Fortuyn maintained, while at the same time the number of regional governments should be doubled and schools made smaller. A Fortuyn government would not only reintroduce the draft, but also mandate a special four...
...while graduate student council President Shaun L. Rein says Harvard’s salaries for teaching and research assistants are generous, some graduate students say high housing costs in Cambridge combined with a lack of Harvard dorm space make maintaining an adequate standard of living difficult...
Harvard always introduces exams with a generous week-and-a-half holiday they call reading period. During these ten days, students have the opportunity to write final papers, study for finals and catch-up on any material passed over during the semester. The design of reading period fits Harvard students to the T; not only does it gives diligent students ample time to pace their studying, but it also gives the procrastinators among us generous opportunity to further postpone their paper-writing and cramming...