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...disposable income in private school and that’s where the bulk of the consulting money goes,” says Cuseo. According to her, the consultants don’t know the students, the teachers, or the way the high school works. This can actually hurt a student’s application, she says, and can lead to obvious packaging.FITTING IN THE BOXThis is perhaps the most common complaint leveled at consulting companies of all kinds. Critics claim that consultants force applicants to think strategically, and this usually means looking at what works—what scores, what...
...life under a Democrat-led House, which will mean the loss of subpoena power and committee chairmanships that comes with defeat. G.O.P. strategists blamed the defeat on two factors: badly run races in the northeast and the wave of scandal that overtook the party. "The scandal seats clearly hurt us and our performance in the northeast was not good," said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Carl Forti. But he claimed some solace in races the party appeared likely to pull out in Connecticut and Georgia...
...turnouts in those key Dem counties, following an especially nasty and costly (for Montana) broadcast and print campaign. Beginning in 2005, the Democratic Party ran TV ads linking Burns to Abramoff. Then Burns compounded matters by badmouthing wildland firefighters and remaining devoted to Bush and the Iraq war, which hurt his image among women and independents in the Democratic counties. Enough of Montana's independent voters showed their displeasure with Burns to squeak Tester...
...stuck at $5.15 for nearly a decade. With the value of the federal minimum wage now at its lowest inflation-adjusted total in 50 years, proponents of the initiatives argue that states have to step in on behalf of the poorest of workers. Opponents say mandated wage hikes would hurt business owners and cost jobs...
...indicated that 78% of this constituency voted for Bush. While the G.O.P. won out in the poll by seven points (42-35) as the party perceived as best equipped to protect moral values, a matter especially important to this group, the party's standing among evangelicals may have been hurt by recent Congressional scandals, which have tarnished the G.O.P. especially. Forty-one percent of registered voters said Congressional scandals were extremely or very important as voting issues this campaign...