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...Calculating the financial group's improvement can be a bit tricky since going from a loss to a profit isn't truly a percentage improvement. "When you cross over zero, comparisons get weird," says Van Dijk. Even so, the financial group's turnaround - it should log $15 billion or more in fourth-quarter profit - will give a strong boost to the S&P 500 composite earnings. The S&P will also be boosted by a famous departure: "GM was losing billions last year, but it's no longer in the S&P," observes Van Dijk...
Each House has to cope with its own unique radiator problems and start dates—and of course there is no universal agreement on when heating is needed. With recent budget cuts, including the loss of hot breakfast, some students if only sarcastically have expressed skepticism that heat will be turned on sometime soon. One Kirkland resident joked...
...with the loss of the physical space within Harvard’s historical walls comes not just the potential loss of quirky architectural features, but also the loss of stories of past inhabitants that are inextricably tied to House spirit...
Harvard had a great chance to stretch the lead to 2-0 later in the second half when Goodman-Bacon finagled the ball past the Big Red goalie, but a Cornell defender swooped in to make a fantastic defensive save. The loss snapped the Big Red’s five-game home winning streak and was only Cornell’s second loss at Dodson Field, the Big Red’s field hockey field since last season...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said recently that she may support a tax change, called a "loss carryback," that would allow money-losing companies to more quickly get tax refunds. Another provision under consideration would extend tax breaks that would allow companies to quickly write off the costs of new purchases. Though many of these provisions could be acted upon before the end of the year, another stimulus proposal to send more federal money to cash-strapped states in 2011 is likely to be put off another year. The February stimulus bill provided about two years of additional state funding. (Read...