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...pressure to turn a profit often forces microfinanciers to change their business models in ways that depart from the industry's original purposes. As Al Amana, Morocco's largest outfit, has shifted from grants to commercial funding, its average loan size has roughly tripled; smaller loans to the most desperate borrowers are costlier to service. One consequence of commercialization is that a lower percentage of loans go to women because they tend to take out smaller sums, according to a recent study by Women's World Banking...
...1860s--although subsequent overproduction drove prices so far down that at one point, a wooden barrel was worth twice as much as the oil it contained, according to Daniel Yergin's definitive tome on oil, The Prize. But as the oil boom took hold and the barrel size was set at 42 gal. (160 L), Pennsylvania's roads became clogged with horse-drawn wagons piled high with the containers, prompting construction of the first oil pipelines (made of wood) and leading 25-year-old John D. Rockefeller to form what became the Standard Oil Co. It would eventually control...
...have to be very sensitive to the perceived power of Harvard in the community,” Stone said. “Partly it’s our size, partly it’s our wealth, partly it’s our fame, and partly it’s just a fact of geography...
...Despite the size and vibrancy of Harvard’s arts community, some students express a sense of separation from the rest of campus. “Unfortunately for the larger community, there seems to be some sort of barrier between the two,” Pecci said. “It seems as if the Harvard community at large isn’t aware of a lot of the work going on and how good...
...like women and Latinos - for Obama in a series of joint rallies. It seemed obvious that if she pressed her unlikely case for the vice presidency too aggressively, Obama would have to deny it or risk seeming weak and unpresidential. Given the freight train of personal baggage and supertanker-size egos the Clintons transport, it would probably be best for her not to press...