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...five months ago, we were essentially paying a tax of $95 per bbl. That's the difference between what oil cost then and what it costs now. This was a "tax" whereby the revenue went into the pockets of oil producers - about two-thirds of them foreign countries and one-third fellow Americans. Isn't there something better to do with the money...
...decided we were not expert enough to risk gambling with student money. When University President Drew G. Faust announced that the value of our endowment had dropped precipitously by 22 percent since its June 30 estimate of $36.9 billion, the reality of the crisis hit home. Given that approximately one-third of the University’s operating budget is derived from the payout of the annual interest generated from the endowment and that tuition and donation income are expected to be affected as well, it is an inconvenient truth that budgets across all schools have to be tightened...
...survey and 1 million had taken other stimulants for nonmedical purposes, including more than half a million users of methamphetamine. There are currently no overwhelmingly effective addiction treatments. Abstinence-based rehab therapy for meth and cocaine work about as well as rehab for other drugs - meaning that about one-third of users improve following treatment, but most relapse repeatedly. And despite decades of study of dozens of compounds, there are as yet no federally approved medications for cocaine or meth addiction...
...Toyota, the industry behemoth, just recorded its seventh consecutive month of declining sales, and the company's second-quarter net profit plunged nearly 70%. Toyota has cut its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2009 to $6 billion, which is just one-third the profit it made the previous year. "You are looking at the deepest downturn that Japanese automakers have ever seen," says Chris Richter, senior research analyst at CLSA, a Hong Kong-based brokerage house. "They've faced downturns before, but not downturns in virtually every global market simultaneously. Even Honda Civics and Toyota Priuses aren...
There's a lot at stake. The worldwide lighting market is worth about $78 billion a year, and consumer luminaries alone - excluding the market for bulbs - is almost one-third of that. Philips is moving fast to expand from its traditional European base. Bijlsma reckons the firm's sales of LED and other low-energy lighting will double every year in emerging markets, and grow "at a fast pace" in mature markets. Philips is targeting Latin America, and also Asia, where it is planning branded showrooms in stores...