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...doesn't NICE take into account other factors in its cost-effectiveness review, such as lost productivity to the workforce? The quick answer is that our statutory instruments specify that we [should not]. But if you give advantage to people who are economically active, it means you disadvantage the economically inactive - the elderly. That's something that British society would find difficult to accept...
Colleges of all stripes are taking a battering as endowments evaporate and the alumni-donation well dries up. But when it comes to actually getting its class in the door, Skidmore, which allowed TIME to observe scholarship discussions and review admissions and financial-aid applications less than two weeks before the school mailed its final decisions, typifies the unique dilemmas that face smallish private colleges. Schools with deep pockets are coping: seven of the eight Ivy League universities, for instance, notched application increases this spring, three of them in double-digit percentages. The same goes for state schools and community...
...thing that should have raised suspicions is that the bank's review of its own investments caused it to pull $250 million from a Madoff feeder fund, Fairfield Greenwich, just months before Madoff was arrested. Chase took this action because it became "concerned about the lack of transparency," and its due diligence "raised doubts" about Madoff's operation...
Chase asserts that its withdrawal was normal procedure. The bank withdrew the $250 million when it "became concerned about the lack of transparency to some questions we posed as part of our review," said Chase spokeswoman Kristin Lemkau in a January 2008 New York Times article. A Chase spokesman did not comment further. Fairfield had no comment...
...popularly supported solar surge spiral into eco-disaster? That's what some say is happening to the Carrisa Plains, a sparsely populated swath of arid, sunny and relatively cheap land in eastern San Luis Obispo County, where three of the world's largest solar plants ever proposed are under review. Together, the Topaz Solar Farm, California Valley Solar Ranch (both photovoltaic projects) and the Carrizo Energy Solar Farm (a solar thermal operation) would provide energy to nearly 100,000 Golden State homes, but only by covering roughly 16 sq. mi. (41 sq km) of the ecologically sensitive plains with solar...