Word: slowdowns
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Higher oil prices seem likely over the long haul. Yet they are anything but certain over the next few years. Any dramatic rise from here would almost certainly trigger a global economic slowdown that would cut demand and send energy prices--and energy stocks--sharply lower. Ed Maraccini, portfolio manager with Johnson Family Funds, says he will get interested again when oil drops below $50. At that level, he says, global demand is sustainable, and economies can grow...
...said that at the meeting, the Council members raised their concerns about the resignation of Conrad Harper from the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—this summer. They also asked for greater transparency in University planning and expressed their worries that the slowdown in FAS hiring may affect efforts to increase Faculty diversity...
...Bush's plan working? Yes, says the President, who calls last week's results "encouraging." That's debatable, says Jack Jennings of the Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group. Early data show NCLB hasn't helped boost scores, he says, and the slowdown in improvement may suggest that "it might actually be holding some students back...
While some department chairs, including Kleinman and Rosenblum, said they understood Kirby’s reasoning for slowing faculty growth for a year, none could envision the broader scope of the hiring slowdown...
...think most of my colleagues are put out by it. We recognize that the speed at which we have increased the faculty is really astonishing when you stand away and look at it, and that it’s quite appropriate to have a period of slowdown...