Word: measuredness
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Yet there's surprisingly little evidence that promise can be met. No long-term study has measured how often borrowers graduate to the middle class. "Is microcredit a cure for entrenched poverty?" asks Northeastern University professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand, who focuses on microfinance. "There aren't the statistics to prove...
As news stories, government reports and academic studies have confirmed, religious organizations were among the few "first responders" to respond well in the days after the storms hit. Since then, whether measured by volunteers mobilized, dollars donated, houses rebuilt or people counseled and consoled, national religious nonprofits like the Salvation...
It's the thoughtful Henry scenes that elevate The Tudors from Desperate Palacewives to a West Wing--esque political drama. Like Martin Sheen's President Bartlet, Rhys Meyers' Henry is appealingly curious about the world around him. "We live in a political climate that is so anti-intellectual," says Beem...
“What’s really quite amazing is that compared to the other neighborhoods, Broadmoor is showing tremendous signs of actual, physical, on-the-ground progress in terms of its recovery, and that can be measured with a walk or a drive down the street, those sounds...
True, that judgment would have been harder to make in the early 1990s. Then, Jacques Delors was the President of the European Commission, the single currency was being planned, and François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl were shaping European policy. It seemed certain that political union would follow the...