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...over the money for those few seconds as it moves between the customer's account and Wal-Mart's. By using its own bank, the company will save fractions of a penny on each transaction, yielding $5 million to $10 million a year, which it says can go toward lower prices...
...salesman ('This long dress is for girls with bad knees'). Best of his clothes were the suits and suit ensembles, made mostly of tweed or velvet and worn with matching hats (jockey caps, berets, bowlers and pillboxes) and boots. And even better than the clothes were Cassini's prices, lower this year than ever; some dresses retailed for as little...
...says. Lewis says she cannot give exact figures because the admissions office does not place homeschooled students’ applications into separate categories.Despite this increase in the number of applicants, Lewis says Harvard usually only accepts between three and eight homeschooled students each year, a number significantly lower than this year’s overall acceptance rate of 9.3 percent. Nancy Faust Sizer, a lecturer at the GSE, says this lower admissions rate could reflect a lack of information about homeschoolers’ educational background.“Nobody knows exactly what the situation was,” Sizer says...
...plans last semester when he was Currier House Committee co-chair, said that Currier is the only house without a library or a reading room, even though “the Harvard literature states that every house has one.” The Currier House website lists the Bingham lower main room and rooms located on the first floors of Tuchman and Gilbert as reading rooms. But current Currier House Committee Co-Chair Techrosette Leng ’07 said that the Tuchman room is visited rarely, while the Gilbert and Bingham rooms are used more often for TV-watching...
...compared the responses to chemotherapy of women whose tumors were sensitive to the hormone estrogen (ER-positive) and women whose tumors were not sensitive to estrogen (ER-negative). The researchers examined how evolving treatment regimens have affected the relapse and death rates of study participants. The researchers found that lower relapse and death rates correlated to improvements in chemotherapy for ER-negative patients. Chemotherapy increased the five-year survival rate of women with ER-negative tumors by 23 percent. But it increased the five-year survival rate of patients with ER-positive cancer by a statistically-insignificant 7 percent...