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...both lending and new construction in 2010, and place additional curbs on speculative property investment. A mortgage discount for first-time property buyers - which made a fixed, 5% 20-year mortgage available for just above 4% - has already been eliminated, and lending standards for buyers looking at second and third properties as investments have been tightened appreciably...
...Philipp Rösler (FDP) thinks he's come up with a solution to crack the problem: a flat-rate premium for health-care contributions so all Germans pay the same, regardless of income. But colleagues from the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party and the third partner in the coalition, have slammed the plan, saying it is not "socially fair and not financeable...
...world's most populous democracy is moving to increase the proportion of its female lawmakers. On March 9, the upper house of India's Parliament passed a bill--first proposed nearly 15 years ago--that would reserve one-third of seats in the national and state legislatures for women. Opposition was intense: some lawmakers protested the vote, and seven members of Parliament were suspended for disorderly behavior. Ultimately, the bill passed with a large majority...
Currently, the most common outcome in a case of academic dishonesty is “required withdrawal” for two semesters, with over one-third of cases in the past five years resulting in this decision, which mandates that students leave campus and find work...
...third time wasn’t quite the charm for the Crimson, but Harvard’s defense stepped up yesterday, allowing a little over a sixth of the offensive production it had given up the day before...