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After weeks of calls by the Japanese government to do something about deflation and the fast appreciating yen, the Bank of Japan held an emergency meeting Tuesday - and decided what the world's second largest economy needs is more money. Central bank governor Masaaki Shirakawa announced steps to step up monetary easing by injecting 10 trillion yen (about $115 billion) into Japan's financial system. Shirakawa told reporters that these steps could be considered "quantitative easing in a broad sense." The eight-member policy board also unanimously voted to maintain the Bank of Japan's key short-term interest rate...
That still strikes many congregations as extreme. A common first step is to improve security outside. One of Hawkins' clients is Houston's Berean Baptist Church, which had its moment of truth about security needs when the senior pastor's car was stolen as he sat just a few yards away in his office. "Cars were stolen from the parking lot all the time," says executive pastor Hutson Smelley. "And the burglaries got to a point where it was more than once a month...
...Harris had not indicated his plan to step down from the position he and his wife have held for seven years before sending out last night’s notification over the Cabot Announce e-mail list, according to Cabot resident tutor Zirui Song...
...time or do the job the way we think it ought to be done,” the e-mail stated. “Cabot deserves better than we feel we can give it at this time, and so we think it is best that we step aside and allow the College to bring in some new blood...
After ten years serving as masters of Eliot House, Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted announced that they plan to step down from their posts in June 2010 in an e-mail to the House community on Thanksgiving...