Word: ladders
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...preliminary estimates, we need to plan for a cost reduction of $105 million to $125 million relative to this year’s (FY2009) budget. In other words, even if we do not take on any incremental expenses (such as a salary increase for existing faculty or new ladder faculty searches) we will still need to find at least $105 million in reductions from current expenses. Faced with budgetary pressure of this magnitude, we have decided to curtail sharply most incremental expenditures (relative to the FY2009 budget...
...food and fuel costs. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking, a global network of 54 microfinance institutions and banks in 30 countries, spoke to Time's Jeremy Caplan recently about how the financial crisis has affected those on the lower rungs of the world's economic ladder...
...money but the movement of money that produces more money. Deeper pockets across the country mean more that can be spent by consumers. In any case, during the past eight years we have been redistributing wealth - from our kids, and theirs, to the upper few percent on the economic ladder with little or none trickling down to the common man the GOP purports to speak for. Dan Thompson, Union...
Throughout, Rose sounds as strong as ever and maybe even more flexible. On the "November Rain"-ish ballad "Street of Dreams," he emotes with a previously unheard Elton John - like pop softness, and "There Was a Time" has him scampering flawlessly up the vocal ladder from low growls to meticulous high notes. Most of the tracks clock in at about five minutes, with solid melodies and abundant pace and instrument changes. Choirs show up sometimes, as do a mellotron and a Spanish guitar. It's almost enough to keep things interesting. Almost...
...Detroit North if Washington rescues its own car companies. Rewarding decades of abysmal management and arrogance with billions of taxpayers' dollars might seem wasteful, but at least in the short run it will save Ontario, whose fortunes rise and fall with Detroit, from sliding further down the economic ladder...