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...puts a very high premium on gender and racial diversity of the faculty which I regard as the most shallow and skin-deep of all of the kinds of diversity out there,” said council member Brian C. Grech ’03, who is president of the Harvard Republican Club...
...puts a very high premium on gender and racial diversity of the faculty which I regard as the most shallow and skin-deep of all of the kinds of diversity out there,” said council member Brian C. Grech ’03, who is president of the Harvard Republican Club...
...fuel-efficiency standards. President Bush has proposed tax credits of $2,000 to $3,000 for hybrid-car buyers, but those funds aren't likely to kick in for another two years, if ever. Until then, if you want your fancy hybrid car, you'll have to pay a premium. Maybe that's what appeals to the movie stars...
...Sound like an awful lot of money to give to charity? In Wall Street's euphemism-speak, goodwill is more like getting taken to the cleaners. "Goodwill" is the term for the premium one company pays to acquire another, over and above the acquired company's book value. Such overpayment is intentional, whether to beat out fellow suitors or woo the shareholders of the bride, and technically it's an asset (albeit an intangible one), the assumption being that all that extra dough was buying something...
...budget and doesn’t pretend to be. After all, these guys have tons of fresh wood paneling to pay for, along with new stereos piping in Nina Simone and two 42-inch flat screens hanging above the bar. And like the $9 movie ticket, the $4.25 premium draft has ceased to outrage many locals. Glasses of wine range from $6 (a nice pinot grigio) to $11, while bottles stick pretty close to the “glass times four” formula and span from $22 to $58. For those who have heard rumors of an $8 glass...