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...continuing to look for ways to curb drunk driving, MADD is emphasizing its negative economic impact. MADD estimates that drunk driving now accounts for 18% of the nation's auto-insurance bill and 20% of all emergency-room costs that are never reimbursed, as well as 16% of all probation costs and 6% of all jail cells used...
...spread jumped all the way up to 180 basis points last fall, according to data-tracker HSH Associates - but has since settled down to about 100. Still, that's a big added expense. Plus, consider that for houses worth more than $1.5 million or so, banks are likely to look for a down payment in the 30% range. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...Because the Law School's share of endowment payout for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 may fall by as much as $19 million from this past year's payout, administrators have come to view layoffs as a "painful" but necessary cost-cutting measure taken only after an "exhaustive look at all other possibilities," Jackson wrote. Staff attrition and redeployment, along with the University's voluntary early retirement incentive program, already helped to achieve most of the necessary downsizing...
...court all but a shoo-in when confirmation hearings begin on July 13. But members of the Supreme Court bar and clerks who have worked there say the opinion in the Ricci case (named for one of the New Haven firefighters who brought the lawsuit) offers an advance look at Sotomayor's future relations with conservative Justices - and may set the tone for her interactions with her presumed peers. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...
...teaches political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Another factor is the exit of U.S. President George W. Bush, whose own bid for excessive presidential power wasn't exactly seen by Latin Americans as a model of democratic checks and balances. Today, the more collegial Obama presidency makes hyperpresidencies look less seemly. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...