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Meanwhile, with home equity credit lines drying up, Americans have also become more reliant on their credit cards than ever. Overstretched consumers might be forced to bail on their mortgage - even if it means losing their home - but they'll continue to make the minimum payment on their credit cards, because that is their only safety net left. While default rates on subprime mortgages can be as high as 30%, the highest default rates being reported by card issuers is just 5%. Despite fears that the credit-card industry is poised to become the next subprime debacle, it is still...
...while the American economists had a maximum of influence to shape Iraq’s new economic policy, they also had a minimum of information...
...told the Times that the big man had already received calls last week from Boston College, Rutgers University, and the Universities of Cincinnati, Connecticut, and Pittsburgh. It seemed uncertain, anyway, whether Ben-Eze would have managed to raise his ‘Academic Index’ score above the minimum required to compete in the Ivy League in time for the March deadline on admissions decisions. The news that Ben-Eze is no longer Cambridge-bound reminded me of a moment late last year when I found myself hearing of the plight faced by a very different subset of foreign...
...rampant in developed regions like North America and Europe. The U.S. has spent more than $5 billion this decade aiding Colombia's largely failed efforts to eradicate coca cultivation. Meanwhile, Washington and the U.N. have tried to get Bolivia and Peru to reduce their coca crops to the bare minimum for traditional consumption. Peru and Bolivia are the region's second and third largest coca producers, behind Colombia, with about more than 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) under cultivation, or almost half of global supply...
...satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard’s athletic program will be within one standard deviation of the student body and that all student-athletes will meet a minimum Academic Index standard. Harvard athletic programs such as women’s hockey, which has achieved No. 1 national rankings in five of its last 10 seasons despite the Academic Index constraints, have served as far better representatives of the University than any form of mediocrity...