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...innovate and improve the courses themselves.Given the acknowledged flaws of the Core, it would be hypocritical and unfair to current students not to implement the new system as soon as possible, unless there were some great cost involved in doing so. Any concerns about instant implementation, however, are minor and far outweighed by the benefits of the new distribution requirements.The first concern is that the transition might not yet be able to reconcile the Core with the new distributive system. Yet with the exception of moral reasoning, the 11 current Core areas map fairly cleanly onto the three distribution categories...
Call it the downside of getting global. In the mid-1990s, HSBC's business was based primarily in Hong Kong and Britain. Since 1998, however, the bank has completed more than 50 acquisitions, the biggest coming in the U.S., where HSBC previously had only a minor presence in the form of Marine Midland Bank, which it bought in the '80s. In 1999 HSBC acquired Republic New York Corp. for $9.7 billion. In 2003, in a move that signaled HSBC's determination to shift into higher-margin consumer businesses, HSBC paid $14.4 billion for Household International, a provider of car loans...
...fundamental goal of Medicare Part D is hard to argue with. Medicare has no drug benefit; Part D provides one. When Medicare was established in 1965 as a Great Society health-care program for seniors, prescription drugs were a minor planet in the universe of medical treatment. They now account for 11% of every health-care dollar spent. But more than a quarter of the 42 million people on Medicare had no drug coverage at all last year...
...don’t want to judge, and I try not to let it get to me,” she says. “There have been some minor negatives, but on the whole, the reaction has been really positive...
...pretty close to finishing all the major details and am wrapping up the minor details,” Straight says about planning her August wedding. “I still need to pick flowers and finalize invitations, but I’ve had the church and the reception hall since October...