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...support aimed specifically at auto dealers, who have had a difficult time financing their inventories - forcing some of them out of business. The support is being administered through the Fed's Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility or TALF, which was created this past autumn to encourage banks to start lending again. To further help the dealers, the Fed eased the eligibility requirements so that inventory financing (and there's plenty of inventory to finance) now qualifies as an "asset" that can be packaged into a security just like a mortgage or a car loan...
...From the start, the soft-spoken but respected Senator Lugar, in his mildest, most diplomatic way, stated his concern that the former President's fundraising abroad might create an impression of a conflict of interest. "Foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as a means to gain favor with the Secretary of State," he said. Therefore, he suggested, "even well-intentioned foreign donations [to the Clinton Foundation] carry risk for United States foreign policy...
...Despite the study's impressive, albeit short-term results, some critics in higher education are concerned that cash incentives will encourage students to start taking easier courses to ensure they'll do well enough to pocket the money. "Everyone knows what the gut classes are when you're in college," notes Kirabo Jackson, an assistant professor of labor economics at Cornell who has studied cash incentives for high school students. "By rewarding people for a GPA, you're actually giving them an impetus to take an easier route through college." Other critics note that students' internal drive to learn...
...currently trained as a tank commander but will start helicopter training sometime in early...
...these findings reason enough to ask mothers of premature girls to start popping fish-oil capsules? Probably not, says Dr. David Adamkin, director of neonatal medicine at University of Louisville. "This study looks at giving babies nutrients that we know they don't get enough of in utero because they are born too early," he says. "While an 18-month follow up is okay, an eight-year follow up is going to be much better. We need more time to see if these differences are really going to persist...