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Mercer analysts attribute the developments mainly to the collapse of the equity market, in which many U.S. pension plans are invested. But pension funds are being hit on the other side of their balance sheet as well, as declining yields on Treasury bonds swell the size of their pension fund liabilities...
Cluster bombs explode in midair, releasing many smaller, grenade-like “submunitions,” which can blanket an area the size of a football field. Critics say this indiscriminate method of deployment and the potential for unexploded submunitions to remain in an area long after the end of a conflict, as land mines do, contribute to their danger...
...Grand Forks. North Dakota took the first game 7-3, only to fall to Cornell by a score of 2-1 the next night. North Dakota, which averages 2.57 goals per game compared with a 3.57 goals-against average, is entering Cambridge determined to make its physicality and size a hassle for Harvard, but the Crimson’s players are determined to make this game about their strengths. “There are definitely systems that every team runs, and you can always talk X’s and O’s in terms of how to defend...
...event was interspersed with humor when moderator and Satire V member Joshua A. Rosenthal ’09 questioned Koenigs, the second humorous candidate. Koenigs highlighted his plan for green power and condemned his wasteful opponents for making campaign posters that were “the size of small states...
...message. Embrace change: it is inevitable. Go with the flow. But Eric Abrahamson, a business-school professor at Columbia University, says the theory is full of holes: "It's a one-size-fits-all approach. There's not much here from the point of view of the recipients of the changes." The problem, he says, is that some employees have been burned out by too much corporate change: layoffs, restructuring, mergers; the cheese never stops moving. That's not a paradigm shift. It's management bereft of ideas...