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...Casey, Skidmore's vice president for advancement, estimates that because 80% of the school's funding comes from tuition, any single student's absence could punch a $25,000 to $30,000 hole in the operating budget. And it's possible that the sophomore, junior and senior classes could shrink as well. Shorb has already received about 60 new financial-assistance requests from currently enrolled students, five times as many as in a typical year...
...Harvey's standards, A Woman a Man Walked By is kind of a lark. You can tell because she let frequent collaborator John Parish write the music (to her lyrics) and play all the instruments; when she's serious, Harvey handles everything save the shrink-wrap. Still, it's an excellent version of an underrated career in miniature...
...life support of a US $25.1 billion credit line from the International Monetary Fund, its currency has been in free fall. Since the beginning of this year, the Hungarian Forint has slid 19% against the U.S. dollar, and 13% against the Euro. The government now predicts the economy could shrink by 3% this year, a modest estimate compared to the 7.5% drop predicted by some analysts. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...currencies. Factor in the country's $350 billion sovereign wealth fund pumped full of the country's oil revenues, and the cost of insuring against government default in Norway - a key measure of a currency's safety - is the lowest of those countries. With Norway's output expected to shrink by a modest 1.2% this year, far less than in most of the world's leading economies, the krone, HSBC said, represents "the ultimate safe haven." (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
Although FlyBy’s name evokes images of chicken salad sandwiches in shrink wrap, we’d like to think we have good taste. What could be better, then, than an opportunity to don our Sunday best and dine amidst freshly pressed linens and candlelight? But alas, in a recession, this luxury is becoming more difficult to afford. Thankfully, Boston’s Winter Restaurant Week starts today, running through March 20 and continuing from March 22 through March 27. More details after the jump...