Word: mid-march
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...Just before the Easter break in mid-March, Barney Frank, head of the House financial services committee, announced a series of initiatives to restructure financial regulation, create a new financial services uber-regulator and stiffen restrictions on Wall Street's complex financial tools for issuing credit and raising capital. His proposals had strong backing in the Democratic caucus, according to Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. What's more, in what Democrats say is a sign of the changing environment in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse, the Senate this week will take up a new housing...
...efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...mid-March of this year, Harvard Medical International (HMI) will be history. HMI—a $21 million-per-year subsidiary of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) that provides health care consulting services in over 30 countries around the world—has incurred the disapproval of several key University Hall figures, those of whom decided to sell off the program to the private firm Partners HealthCare. It seems that many in the central administration, such as Provost Steven E. Hyman and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, have concluded that as HMI’s focus shifted...
...administrators who were critical of HMI would soon achieve the sought-for split between the University and the organization—a move slated for mid-March...
...mid-March, after years of review, Harvard plans to spin-off HMI’s health-care consulting functions to Partners HealthCare, the Massachusetts health-care delivery group that operates two prominent Harvard-affiliated hospitals—Brigham and Women’s and Mass. General...