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...During the question-and-answer session, a few professors expressed frustration that the entire school has had to cut back in part due to a spending spree in recent years that focused on campus and faculty expansion...
...best to portray their colorful corruption case against the now former Illinois governor in the starkest possible terms. Normally tight-lipped U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declared that Blagojevich, who was caught on tape allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, had embarked on a "political corruption crime spree [that would] make Lincoln roll over in his grave." When the actual indictment came down April 2, the government was much more low-key, with no accompanying press conference or statement...
...Despite all the nervousness, the dollar is not necessarily destined to decline. Large budget deficits don't automatically lead to weaker currencies. In the early 1980s, the dollar strengthened even as the Reagan Administration embarked on a spending spree, because higher interest rates attracted foreign money, pushing the dollar up. The budget deficit "is not at the center of thinking about the dollar," says Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School...
...grew to be a far bigger force than they ever were in the 1980s. From 2005 through mid-2007, PE firms - loaded with cash from pension funds, college endowments and sovereign wealth funds, and able to borrow trillions more from banks and bond investors - went on an unprecedented buying spree, snapping up the likes of Chrysler, Dunkin' Brands, Harrah's, Hertz, and Hospital Corp. of America in hopes of later selling them to the public or to another company or even to another PE fund. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...deal,” senior co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We came out with pride in that second game and tried to silence their bats.” Despite the enthusiasm, the night game was scoreless through three innings. Senior Hayley Bock sparked the Harvard scoring spree, leading off the fourth inning with a double and coming home on a single by junior Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor. The Crimson added another run to its lead in both the fifth and sixth innings before closing the door on the Bulldogs with a spectacular...