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Harris said that although an individual’s course selections are likely to change between pre-registration and Study Card day, the predicted class size tends to be within 5 percent of actual enrollment numbers—not substantial enough to affect section sizes...
Chance procedure involves developing short movement phrases in varying length and size and then performing them in random order—a strategy quite different from the strict choreography of ballet that Skal had trained in before coming to college...
...will be exceedingly easy to find. Even a group of staunch like-minded reformers would have a hard time finding common ground; in fact, that's exactly what happened inside the Obama Administration, which is why the President recently proposed new add-on provisions limiting bank size and speculation. So how hard is it going to be for the less staunch to find something in the bill to reject? It's worth noting that the 100%-confident Gregg and Democratic Senator Jack Reed were assigned to hash out compromise rules for derivatives - and failed. Even if they had succeeded...
...down question of an independent consumer agency, a fairly simple issue even for nonexperts. But reasonable reformers can and do disagree about how much power to give the Federal Reserve, how to wind down failing banks without bailouts, how to regulate "systemic risk," whether to cap the size of banks, whether to allow banks to own hedge funds or play the markets with their own cash, whether to preempt stricter state banking regulations, and countless other disputes over leverage and liquidity restrictions, payday lenders, securitization, industrial loan corporations, derivatives end users, mortgage underwriting and other arcane issues that probably...
...Japan's two-decade economic slump is not helping. The collapse of the bubble economy after 1990 shrunk the size of Japanese firms and led to a restructuring that is still playing out today. The percentage of the workforce employed in part-time, temporary and contract work has tripled since 1990, forcing workaholic Japanese businessmen, many of whom never married, into a lonely early retirement. "Their world has evaporated under their feet," says Scott North, an Osaka University sociologist who studies Japanese work life. "The firm has been everything for these men. Their sense of manliness, their social position, their...