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Previously, Chinese students’ visas expired after six months or two entries into the country, inhibiting short-term travel. Since June 20, however, students have been able to receive visas that are good for one year...
Your article says "takeover strategy is taking up vast amounts of management's energy and attention." Of course. But would these corporate chiefs have had to fight for their jobs and perks if they had been building the balance sheets for the benefit of stockholders instead of concentrating on short-term operating statements for their own benefit? Earl D. Brodie San Francisco...
...have hedged fuel prices since the 1980s, but as the major carriers have run into financial difficulties in recent years, they have no longer had the cash--or the creditworthiness--to play the oil-futures market. Last year Delta held positions but was forced to sell them in a short-term cash crunch. Those hedges would have protected about a third of its fuel needs. Continental has no hedges in oil-futures contracts this year. United Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2002, has 30% of its fuel hedged...
...poor receiving proportionately more than the wealthy. This is an idea Democrats would embrace if they had the courage of their "progressive" convictions. But the donkeys appear to be more obsessed with social issues (like abortion rights) than with programs to benefit the poor, and most obsessed with short-term tactics to thwart Bush, regardless of the quality of his proposals...
Applying for jobs in investment banking and consulting is often an attractive short-term post-graduation option for a student population where 70 to 75 percent of students say they hope to go to graduate or professional school, according to senior survey data...