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...profit universities, one might assume that lenders are altruistic to some extent—or at least that universities would assume responsibility as an impartial judge of lenders. However, the recent scandals prove that regulators still have reason to doubt private interests. If such unsavory business practices persist, students will only find refuge behind stricter federal regulations aligned with Cuomo’s “code of conduct.” Though federal regulation is crucial for correcting this market distortion, truly impartial university financial advice would ensure fair lending practices. Bribes, or to put it euphemistically, incentives, require...
...knows that's a retro virtue. "To get your hands dirty building something?" he asks. "You can buy that nowadays. So a lot of artists buy a very high level of craft from somebody else. They don't put themselves in the place of the maker. I persist in that practice. It's a rich place to be. And also"--he laughs when he says this--"I'm a very controlling person...
...both the majority views that have comprised its historical past and the current changes that are catalyzing its future. The one thing that must not happen among immigrant generations is for pre-existing American values to assert superiority over foreign ones by sheer virtue of their predominance. Which values persist and which ones fade away should be recognized and questioned on their own grounds, not left to the realm of the inarticulate psychological subconscious...
...diseases and help prevent them from getting pregnant. The message was not "value neutral": "We do certainly sit down and speak with them about why that's not a good choice," said Portland's school nurse coordinator Amanda Rowe, referring to sexually active students. "But there are some who persist - even though we don't like to think about that - in being sexually active, and they need to be protected...
...corn, says Jing Ulrich, head of China equities at JP Morgan in Hong Kong. Although Ulrich expects food prices to stabilize by year's end as the pork supply recovers, she says inflationary pressures resulting from rising meat consumption, the country's shrinking farmland and water shortages will persist...