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Though sightseeing opportunities are limited to peering out the car window while being chauffeured from meeting to meeting, Faust—generally very low maintenance, aides say—often insists on a museum visit and some downtime to venture to local restaurants for ethnic cuisine...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Around the World with Faust | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...rating is the highest given by external credit rating agencies. It denotes a very low risk of credit default and means selling debt is cheaper for institutions considered financially sound...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bummer in the City | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...Loop, the freeway that defines Houston's city limits, and only 1 million of the city's 2.2 million residents are registered voters. Many are immigrants who cannot vote. The key to winning any Houston mayoral race is coalition-building, and Parker's political career has been deliberate, "low risk" and "canny," according to Richard Murray, a veteran political analyst and political science professor at the University of Houston. Her political journey echoes, to some degree, that of Houston's only other female mayor, Kathy Whitmire. Like Whitmire, Parker used the job of city controller as a jumping-off point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...Republican voters, who saw the issue as not central to the vote. The business establishment, which originally felt that Parker could not win, cooled to their chosen candidate as the runoff campaign evolved, Murray says, and Parker was able to win the race 53% to 47%. Turnout was also low - just 16.5% - meaning the candidate who was better organized to get out the vote would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania; he co-authored the study with Harvard doctoral fellow Joshua Mitchell. "There was a perception that these mothers were idle and it would be good to get them to be productive. Our study suggests they have traded one kind of productive activity for another." The EITC encouraged low-income women to enter the paid workforce partly by refunding the tax the women paid on their earnings as well as reducing the payroll tax for employers. When Gelber and Mitchell crunched the time-allocation numbers for single moms, they found that for every hour worked outside the home in response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tax Reform Means Working Moms Do Less Housework | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

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