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...Antagonist (also known as The Bitch). She loves to play devil’s advocate and isn’t afraid to take your statements out of context to one-up you in the name of zero-sum grade competition. She launches into incredibly articulate diatribes—replete with sophisticated words like “caveat”—until you’re convinced she must be utilizing the power of Satan. Don’t worry: Her stilettos cannot support the weight of her bitchiness for too long. She’ll feel...
...making this commute much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that the American and European companies that currently buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers next year?leading to closures of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense to one of its victims. "I know that everything in Dhaka's markets is made in China," Begum says. "But how can the Chinese make clothes more cheaply than we do, when I get paid so little...
More financial aid programs emphasize loans over grants, the report found. Grants today amount to less than half of the total sum of loans offered within the average financial aid package. This reverses the trend of the ’90s when grants comprised roughly the same percentage of financial aid as loans...
...twofold," says Jan Culver, a CPA and senior vice president for McDonald Financial Group Trust Services. "Assuming the kids are reliable about making payments, this gives parents a steady stream of retirement income at a fixed rate of interest, which is a lot less risky than taking a lump sum and investing it in the stock market. It can also potentially save money for the kids because the rate of interest that must be charged on a private loan can be 1% to 2% lower than what a mortgage lender charges...
...little wonder so many listen when Schwartz speaks. GBN, which was sold in 2000 to the Monitor Group, based in Cambridge, Mass., for a seven-figure sum, has seen a 25% rise in requests for scenarios this year alone. Schwartz won't say who he's currently working with but says he has been asked to come up with several scenarios for a second George W. Bush Administration. If Bush prevails, Schwartz says, the President may become more internationalist and environmentalist. "Even the auto industry is greener than this Administration," he says...