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...Some of the work was already under way: Crocs has shed 32% of jobs since 2007, shuttering factories, paring its distribution network and cutting its inventory in half over the past couple of years. That's helped nudge Crocs' stock close to $7, but for it "to move higher, [the company] ultimately needs to become profitable," says Mitch Kummetz, a senior research analyst at Wisconsin wealth-management firm Robert W. Baird. New cuts aim to bring a return to positive earnings in 2010. (See a TIME video on high-heeled shoes...
...Additionally, to get the hypothetical higher returns over time and avoid investing disasters, you have to hold a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds. Many of us don't. Munnell found that 14% of workers held no stocks at all, leading to weaker-than-average returns. On the opposite end, more than a quarter of all 401(k)s were 100% stocks, exposing those accounts to big losses when the market dropped...
...Anonymity-Sketchiness Ratio, easily remembered as the ASR. In order for your action to not be sketchy, its anonymity must be as high as possible relative to its sketchiness. For those of you still in Math Xa, anonymity goes in the numerator and sketchiness goes in the denominator. Higher numbers are good: it means your witnesses don’t know or care who you are. Lower numbers are bad: it’s like posting to your news feed—everyone will know...
...greener university.Harvard’s current LEED projects represent upwards of 1,000,000 square feet of space and savings of $680,000 and 1,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Harvard’s 20 LEED certifications take the win for any institution of higher education—more than the rest of the Ivy League combined and, for you fans of rivalry, three times more certifications than Yale.“Green building is important because Harvard’s more than 700 existing buildings contribute the bulk of our emissions today...
...leadership at Old Dominion University who has worked on two studies of the program. "Principals and other supervisors have reported that these teachers worked better with problem children, worked better with parents and worked better with colleagues," he says. On the basis of administrators' observations, "the TTT people rated higher in exhibiting behaviors that are associated with increases in student achievement...