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...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 at 0.1%. Doubts, however, remain about what the boost to liquidity will actually achieve...
...ultimate goal for the room reservations project is a centralized and integrated system that allows students to not only search for but also reserve their desired rooms, according to Ebrahim...
...Almost every room has a different way to reserve it,” said Hardwick, who worked with the committee last semester to develop ideas to improve the system...
...first decade, and the Senate bill would reduce it by $127 billion—not to mention the other, more difficult to quantify elements such as the excise tax on high-cost insurance that will bring down costs as we grow. On the flipside, if we keep the current system, our general fiscal health will decay along with the initiative of many might-have-been trailblazers. The CBO has also estimated that by 2016 premiums will be $15,000 for a family of four in the Exchange, well below the $24,000 family premium expected if Congress fails...
...Dame's glory days, Catholic secondary schools were prime recruiting centers. Priests and nuns would ask for prayers for "the boys" on Saturdays and would encourage their best athletes to attend Notre Dame. But many forces, including abuse by priests, have damaged American Catholicism and crippled the parochial school system. Nearly 1 in 5 Catholic schools in the U.S. has closed its doors this decade. Combine that with a more secular society, a more competitive college-recruiting environment and Notre Dame's tough admissions requirements, and it has become more and more difficult for the school to field a team...