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...face of the economic erosion under way. The Bank of England cut its key rate by one percentage point to 2% today, while Sweden's central bank cut its key rate by 1.75 percentage points. The U.S. Federal Reserve's main lending rate now stands at 1%, the lowest level in five decades...
...good times, however, are gone. Last year the government allocated zero irrigation to the basin's farmers, and they produced just 18,000 metric tons of rice, the lowest yield since 1927. "No one around here has ever seen conditions like this," says rice grower Les Gordon, standing on the cracked ground of his 4,000-acre farm near the town of Barham...
...midst of his ongoing struggle with brain cancer and what will likely be his last term as a U.S. Senator, Kennedy has not only witnessed but also participated in much of America’s commendable progress over the last half-century. He has known, intimately, the lowest lows and highest highs of his country’s flight to its present (precarious) position. And he has personally demonstrated both the selflessness and the ardor needed to move mountains and make change, not only for Massachusetts residents but for millions of Americans over the years. Even as Kennedy used...
...first proposal would increase the minimum SAT II score necessary to place out of the language requirement from 600 to 700. Compared to its peer institutions, Harvard has the lowest SAT II, yet the highest AP score requirements to place out of taking a language, the committee found...
...have taken more than 10 weeks, Gel-Qonaf said, is the large number of people involved who expect to get a cut from any hijacking, ranging from pirate commanders to leaders of the embattled U.S.-backed transitional government of Somalia as well as its nemesis, the Islamist Shabab militia. Lowest in the pecking order, it seems, are the gunmen who actually captured the ships. (See pictures of Somalia's brazen pirates...