Word: ingly
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...clear that Japan's latest attempt at reform would be yet another toothless assortment of half-measures, imprecise benchmarks and overly generous deadlines. In other words, the banks were off the hook. 'This time, I thought they were serious about fixing the banks,' says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics...
...asked council members for feedback about the possibility of adopt ing Yale's residential system, in which incoming first-year students would be assigned a Yard dorm for their first year, but all the students in a particular dorm would move on to the same House for their final three years...
That support has come at a price. Not only are reformists like Seillière cry-ing foul, but government spin control has at times been dizzying. Raffarin cabinet members have issued clashing policy pronouncements, forcing the Prime Minister to officiate and clear the air. Sometimes the government shows signs of wanting reform but lacking the stomach to go through with it. Last week, for example, after a junior minister provoked a storm by revealing job reductions planned for France's mammoth public school system, Education Minister Luc Ferry rushed to placate teachers' unions with assurances that only administrative posts...
...manager at State Street Global Advisors, owns Russia's two big oil stocks, Lukoil and Yukos, which should benefit as the West looks for oil outside the Middle East. But all Russian industries will benefit as "post-9/11, Russia more clearly aligns with the West," says Aham. The ING Russia fund is a stalwart in this space--up 33% a year for the past three years...
Bean will not be overseeing dorm life at Haverford, which he said “will be a big change,” and he will have fewer disciplinary responsibilities. Instead, Bean said he will focus on “helping shape college policy and coordinat[ing] intervention in support of students who are having academic difficulties...