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More than 50 tenured and emeritus professors from Harvard Business School told President Bush to roll back his administration’s massive tax cuts and stem the growth of the federal budget deficit in a harshly worded letter released late Monday night...
...pause in play did little to stem the surging Eagles, as BC outside hitter Allison Anderson recorded three straight aces to give her squad a double-digit advantage. Trailing 29-17, the Crimson ran off five straight points, forcing the Eagles to call a timeout, but a BC registered a match-clinching block on the first point after the stoppage for the 30-22 game four...
...Long term, it will cause turmoil in the car market," grumbles Poznan-based car salesman Jacek Pietrzyk. The government fears losing revenue: imported cars are still subject to a tax based on their declared value, but buyers and sellers understate that amount. The Finance Ministry is considering measures to stem the flow of cars...
...also rare for a North American to go to Germany to start a high-tech business; usually, the traffic in entrepreneurs goes the other way. Cenix demonstrates how far Germany has come over the past few years as it tries to promote the creation of science-based businesses and stem an outflow of its best minds to the U.S. Max Planck had been a "large, slow-moving beast," says Echeverri, but when the idea for Cenix was born, it was Max Planck that acted as the midwife and pushed Echeverri into becoming an entrepreneur. "Cenix Bioscience would never have come...
Kerry’s lack of response and attack seems to stem from a philosophy that a negative candidacy is doomed to fail—and that optimism is key. A positive message is certainly worthwhile, but not at the expense of self-defense and a potentially dangerous inability to criticize the chief executive’s judgment. Optimism is all well and good, but Kerry is running for president, not head cheerleader. His pal Bill Clinton is right: Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. But it certainly would be stupid not to show a little more strength...