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This year's Core is still shy of the committee's goal of a minimum of six courses per term in each area. But Verba said he was "very pleased" with progress...
...minimum, Asians expected Japan to contribute by setting its own economic house in order. So far, it hasn't. Japan's leaders still show no stomach for revamping their financial system and slashing regulations that coddle business. No one has shown the interest or strength to break the money links between inefficient industries and the ruling party. Party politics and bureaucratic inertia ground down the reformist plans of the last Prime Minister, and he has been replaced by a cookie-cutter party man with what a Tokyo commentator called "all the pizazz of cold pizza...
Taking a cue from Bogle, Leibowitz's funds have some of the lowest expense ratios anywhere: the domestic stock funds' ratios are under 0.5% of assets, in contrast to about 1.4% for the average comparable fund. Another plus is the funds' low minimum investments of $250 (only $25 if you set up automatic withdrawal...
...says one morning as he waves at rush-hour traffic. It's a well-earned boast, but it isn't backed up by much in the way of new ideas. Asked what he'd do in Congress, Flynn ticks off a laundry list of Democratic perennials, like raising the minimum wage and increasing spending for early-childhood education...
...help those left behind. Among his proposals that night: a plan to let preretirement-age workers buy into the Medicare system, and another to dedicate $21 billion to help working families get child care. Billions more for school construction and 100,000 new teachers. Another hike in the minimum wage. A bill to make Big Tobacco pay for the addiction and crushing health costs smoking can cause. And legislation to reform the kind of campaign-finance abuses that are among Clinton's ugliest legacies...