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...leading cancer experts, it doesn't have to be that way. Organizations including the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lance Armstrong Foundation joined the IARC in releasing the report and proposing an action plan to help nations control the growth of the disease. "Although cancer is a great, growing and devastating disease," says Boyle, "it is largely preventable." (Read "5 Truths About Health Care in America...
...what is the connection between Mr. Dantas’ prosecution and growth expectations for Brazil? The case shows that the country is still on a steady march towards fixing problems common to emerging markets. This march started in 1994 with the Plano Real, the monetary stabilization plan that ended Brazil’s inflation crisis as rates breached 2000 percent annually. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the Finance Minister responsible for this plan, was elected president twice (1994-2002) and started a new era of commitment to responsible economic policy...
...policies. The president and his left wing Workers’ Party chose to uphold the economic orthodoxy of their predecessor. Brazil’s interest rate remains among the highest in the world at 13.75 percent. This demonstrates that the left and the right have actually agreed on a plan for the country. Their issues are different—modernization of the tax system vs. freedom for the federal police, or control of the government budget vs. poverty alleviation. But Brazil has reached a new paradigm in its economic history: One of fixing the country’s problems without...
...with a substantial financial challenge. To help address this challenge, we will need to draw upon our endowment at a higher spending rate than we have historically. Even with a higher spending rate, we still face a large gap in funding. Based on preliminary estimates, we need to plan for a cost reduction of $105 million to $125 million relative to this year’s (FY2009) budget. In other words, even if we do not take on any incremental expenses (such as a salary increase for existing faculty or new ladder faculty searches) we will still need to find...
First, we plan to keep all faculty and non-union staff salaries flat next year. Union staff have a contract with the University, which has been negotiated with the central administration...