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...Swedish experience could hold other lessons, says Robert Bergquist, chief analyst at SEB, one of Sweden's largest banks. "The Swedish success depended on four factors," he explains. Stockholm acted quickly, in open acknowledgement of the problems, and under a broad political agreement across the party spectrum. "Running parallel with these three factors," he says, "a new economic policy - new goals for inflation and the budget - was developed after the crisis...
...schools—which currently can be purchased at the principals’ discretion with bonus money—would also help students learn more effectively. While there is no quick fix to the education industry’s current crisis, radical and new solutions must be sought. Employing parallel tracks of individual and school merit pay in the short term is one such means of ensuring that schools fulfill their ultimate goal of providing every child with a good education...
...closest historical parallel to this effort is the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was formed by Congress in 1989 to buy up and dispose of the assets of failed savings and loans. The difference is that while the RTC took over the assets of corporate corpses already in government hands, the assets everybody's worried about now are on the books of still alive banks, investment banks and other firms. The idea would be to get them off the books of these institutions, hold on to them for a few years and possibly try to renegotiate their terms to slow foreclosures...
...after their wives, like the Americans who shoved their flag in the moon. It was a warning from Allah,” Smith writes in “White Teeth.” The imperial imagery is nice, but it’d also be nice to discover the parallels myself instead of having them shoved down my proverbial throat.This leads me to my confession: while admittedly a bit of a hater, I am a lover of Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother...
...exodus from Bensenville was spurred not by decay but by development. The suburb squats in the crosshairs of a $15 billion plan to ease gridlock at O'Hare, the world's second busiest hub, by adding more parallel runways. For the past three years, the O'Hare Modernization Program (OMP) has been gobbling up land in a 300-acre (120 hectare) "acquisition area" that comprises about 15% of the village. Ninety-five percent of the neighborhood's 542 homes are plastered with signs proclaiming them Chicago property...