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...Other central banks are making similar calculations, although they are not moving as aggressively - yet. The Bank of Japan will terminate its purchases of corporate debt this December. The Bank of England is cutting back on a program to buy government bonds and commercial paper with newly created money. The European Central Bank is mulling an end to its 12-month loans to banks next year. "Not all our liquidity measures will be needed to the same extent as in the past," says ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet...
...Diet's Upper House to accompany its newly won majority in the Lower House. But come next July, the DPJ would be hurt a lot worse at the polls by higher unemployment than a higher deficit. What Japan needs today is fiscal stimulus that stresses the DPJ program to shift Japan to consumer-led growth. Once the economy truly recovers, that will be time to focus on deficit reduction. If Hatoyama gets the order right, hopes that the DPJ's historic election victory might bring real change to Japan might be justified...
...leaving depleted waters for these bluer pastures. "We're getting a lot of boats seeking to come into our region from the Indian Ocean and eastern Pacific because the skipjack is still healthy here," says John Hampton, manager of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Oceanic Fisheries Program, which studies highly migratory fish stocks for the WCPFC. "There is good money to be made." But with more boats on the water, many local governments don't have the resources to keep track of how much fishing is being done in their waters, making illegal fishing or overfishing in protected...
...also a repudiation of the consolidation strategy, which tried to increase profits by centralizing sales and programming. "People say, 'We'll program five markets from X city and we'll have one team doing it, and we'll save all this money,'" he says. "Doesn't work. Listeners want to talk about the mayor, the new light rail that's going in, the local sports teams." Wilson acquired the rights to air the games of three local sports teams for his FM sports channel. According to Arbitron, it has already started to poach listeners from the local AM sports channel...
...Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman instituted a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School District's Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if you're trying to teach adults something...