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...students what they wanted to hear and praising them however much they foundered. At evaluation time, they would be pleased enough by their "success" that they would return the praise. Teaching, in such a light, amounted to flattery. Submitting students to the rigors of learning seemed only to incur the wrath of many of them, which entered the record as my teacherly shortcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graded By My Students | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...concept took root in Britain, where there's no tax on gambling winnings but where capital-gains taxes can run as high as 40%. Betting transactions also don't incur the .5% duty the British government levies on stock transactions and are free of fees and brokerage commissions. Increasingly, investors are using spread betting not just to make quick and large gains on price and market swings but also to hedge their investments. For example, if you want to keep shares in your portfolio as a good long-term investment but think the price may fall in the short term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bets on the Market | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

According to the statement, such violations will incur "immediate and firm action, up to and including no longer purchasing goods from the vendor...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Deliver Open Letter to University Protesting Swearshops | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

People seem to have lost sight of the bottom line: musicians incur costs to record CDs, and many people support families with less-than-glamorous jobs to put these albums out. You can't convince me that a college student who is able to download a whole CD for free on his computer is still going to run out and purchase that recording. Fanning is a punk who is making money off other people's labor. TRACY PASEMAN Issaquah, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 23, 2000 | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

Politicians, not wanting to press the public purse, have historically failed to fund intern positions, precisely because they can. No matter what housing, food, and transportation expenses interns incur, not to mention the opportunity cost of lost wages, there will always be those who pay (or whose parents pay) out of pocket for the experience...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: Paying Servants for Their Service | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

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