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...rolled out in 2002, champions of the currency have worked long and hard to establish the tender as a serious, strong rival to the dollar. Now many of those euro enthusiasts are growing nostalgic for the money's runtier days. Because with the dollar falling to a new record low of $1.5624 during trading Thursday, many European economists and business leaders are worried about how they'll ever be able to sell their products to customers who use dollars. The Euro sign has become an alarm for "expensive...
...number of companies with broad-based plans has dropped to 3,000, from a peak of 4,000 a few years ago. As a result, says Kay, "morale problems are stewing." He warns that line workers understand the value of options when they are granted while the market is low. "They'll see this as a pay cut," he says, and it will infuriate them when CEOs start ringing the register again...
Some scientists point to high testosterone levels combined with low monoamine oxidase inhibitors, which regulates dopamine. The role of testosterone may also implicate evolution. When giant beasts stalked the earth, men took big risks to hunt big game. That could explain why males seem more likely to take chances than females...
...results of this is that the art world has reacted, producing in some quarters a deliberately low intensity art of humble materials and transient gestures. This is the quarter that the latest Biennial is coming from. The 2008 edition, which was organized by Whitney curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, has no official theme. But one of its unofficial themes is what the pair calls "lessness"--work that's less bombastic, less puffed up and made with simple stuff...
...this time around, the matchup will be about far more than bragging rights.Frontcourt play takes center stage in any of the three potential matchups: Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard boast talented forwards in Maduka, Brittany Smith, and Katie Rollins, respectively. Yet the Crimson knows all too well that doubling down low means leaving shooters open. Big Green sharpshooters Koren Schram and Kristen Craft combined for six three-pointers in Dartmouth’s upset in Cambridge, while Big Red guard Lauren Benson slipped in 15 points while all eyes were on Maduka in Harvard’s loss in Ithaca...