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...countries collectively spent $1.5 billion to save their vulnerable banking sectors and a further $200 billion in stimulus funding to revive their economies. Although the latter helped the 16-nation euro zone exit the recession in the middle of 2009, it also lifted already lofty deficit levels even higher - and brought Greece and Spain perilously close to default. Late last year, the European Commission put a handful of other nations on alert out of similar fears, including France and Ireland...
Susan E. Dean, director of college counseling at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, Calif., attributed the higher application totals seen by top schools to the fact that high school seniors have been applying to more colleges...
...their depression had a 67 percent recovery rate, as opposed to a 48 percent recovery rate for those who received none. Numerous studies have examined the treatments for anorexia and eating disorders, including one done in 2003, which suggested that those who received therapy for anorexia nervosa had significantly higher recovery rates than those...
...such as short-selling, betting against the market or hoping it will fail so that you can make money selling for high to buy at very low. or profiting from a fall in stock prices, insider trading, and mark-to-market accounting, or pricing assets at a higher value than they are actually worth—now unfairly criticize the president and his administration for being an interventionist one. Those on Main Street should realize this and rise up and defend this government which is only looking out for the people’s interests, a rarity these days...
Donald E. Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, said he noticed that American universities in general—such as MIT, Yale, and Harvard—seemed to have a larger presence at Davos than usual. He attributed this phenomenon to an overall shift of attentions toward the international community...