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...steady stream of appropriations,” said Long. “Colleges also need to consider how to cut costs on ‘back of the office’ functions by consolidating certain operations.” The result of this increase, especially in the private college sector, is that families are forced to take more loans and are facing greater debt afterward. The study showed that students at Massachusetts private colleges face an average debt of $23,491 at the end of college, a 49 percent increase from the 1992-1993 academic year. Similarly, students at public...
...steam ahead” with both projects, working on them full-time after graduation this year. Already, the pair has recruited three part-time staffers. But they say that the venture could be risky. While most of their classmates spend their senior year searching for jobs in the public sector or refining theses, the two students have devoted personal funds to research and travel. And they spend four to five hours each day on the logistical details of these projects. So says that starting a social enterprise “risky,” but, she adds...
...which lasts until Friday, officials in the five hurricane evacuation zones will practice responding to an evacuation call. Part of the plan includes a team to coordinate fuel distribution along evacuation routes. ?With systems to better assist Texans with special needs, new traffic management and fuel plans, and private sector partners to oversee the distribution of food, water, ice and fuel," Perry said, "I believe Texas is a model in preparedness for other states...
...power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost his job. But here's the twist: years later, both sets of reforms have happened anyway. The national pension system was revamped three years ago. The Finance Ministry, long a bastion of public-sector inefficiency, is today one of the few government departments that is successfully reducing its head count, cutting costs and improving productivity. So, if the truly "normal state of affairs" prevails in France, some watered-down version of Villepin's employment measures may well creep through at some point...
...given an effective veto over all proposed development. It also wants to be allowed to keep the historic agreements that assure it a minimum quantity of Nile water, which other countries question. "These issues could take many years," says Abdel Fattah Metawie, chairman of Egypt's Nile Water Sector, a department of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (his business card jokingly credits his ministry with being in operation "since 4241 B.C."), "but we will reach agreement, even if it takes many years. There is plenty of water. The problem is managing it." The grand vision...