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...Massachusetts law would go further, raising the threshold to 90 percent. The law would also be triggered earlier--delaying a takeover as soon as a hostile bidder acquires 5 percent of a public company's stock, rather than 15 percent, as in Delaware...
...right there at the scientists' side, suggested that $25 million would be a nice sum to help his school set up a fusion research center. Some of the Congressmen appeared eager to oblige. "Today," rhapsodized Robert Roe, a New Jersey Democrat, "we may be poised on the threshold of a new era. It is possible that we may be witnessing the cold-fusion revolution...
...everyone is quite so gloomy, but the current brisk run-up in oil prices serves as a reminder that the U.S. energy supply is increasingly under the influence of outside forces. During March commodities traders bid the price of oil above the $20-a-bbl. threshold for the first time in 17 months. Last week the futures price of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, reached $20.15 a bbl., up some 50% since last October. The rally largely reflects an unexpectedly successful campaign by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, along with several non-OPEC countries...
...many ways, home ownership represents a sense of how we are doing," says Denise DiPasquale, a research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. "So if people own, they are making it over a financial and emotional threshold." While the obstacles may be daunting, many proud and resourceful new owners are showing that the threshold can still be crossed...
Most professors, however, agree with Boone, whosays that there is always a loss when a lotteryhas to be held. "Every student represents such anopportunity, to establish a threshold is aproblem," he says