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...famed investor Warren Buffett recently did with Goldman Sachs. Or the Feds could avoid carrying equity by lending money to financial institutions willing to buy up questionable bank assets at discounted rates. But first the Treasury seems ready to dip into its $700 billion to establish a reverse auction set-up to ensure that the government doesn't pay too high, or too low, a price for the distressed securities. The auction system will likely take at least a month to set...
...better,” Carrington said. “But it draws the people that want to sit down and hear a performance.” In stark contrast, Saturday’s lineup offers different performers on three stages strung along Columbus Ave., a set-up that encourages people to move between shows. Some of the musicians, such as a mixed ensemble of percussionists and vocalists called AfroBrazil, even parade through the crowd. “It’s a party,” Balkin said. “It’s a free all-day party...
...matchmaking turns out to be an ideal candidate for modernization. "Traditionally matchmakers only had 100 people they might set you up with," says Marc Goldmann, co-founder of SawYouAtSinai. But online dating expands that pool to tens of thousands of people and erases the "blind" element of the classic set-up. As Goldmann puts it, greater efficiency means better matches...
...Even though the philosophy behind Harvard’s House set-up is “amazingly contemporary,” Nelson said that the renewal project is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate the modern relevance of the nearly 80-year-old system...
...network has been in the works for months but had been stalled due to the complexity of creating the set-up, said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Square Business Association, who added that the process sped up significantly once an outside company, Anaptyx, LLC, was brought in to help with installation...