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Meanwhile, companies large and small are lining up to tap the $25 billion in loan guarantees administered by the U.S. Department of Energy to help the automakers re-tool for building more efficient vehicles. Congress appropriated the money in September and President-elect Barack Obama promised to double the funding during a late October visit to Detroit...
...good report card earned you a parental pat on the back, but now it could be money in your pocket. Experiments with cash incentives for students have been catching on in public-school districts across the country, and so has the debate over whether they are a brilliant tool for hard-to-motivate students or bribery that will destroy any chance of fostering a love of learning. Either way, a rigorous new study - one of relatively few on such pay-for-performance programs - found that the programs get results: cash incentives help low-income students stay in school...
Yahoo! is also one of the most important forces in online display advertising. There is a temptation to say that the display business is aging and not as efficient at reaching consumers as search ads. But display advertising, barely a decade old, is a relatively new tool for marketers. It still has a good chance of gaining on TV, radio and print...
...software is being installed “to make sure computers are compliant,” Cahill said. “All this software really does is allow you to know easily what is on your computer. This is a tool—a very non-intrusive tool, more of a scanning tool.” Cahill said that the information would not be stored or reported in any way. “It reports the information to the user,” he said. “It does not report to a server. We are simply allowing users...
...house-price appreciation. Those figures tell us that the housing market remains a lumpy place - were price-rent ratios to return to normal, San Antonio would see a 22% drop over five years while San Diego would experience a 28% gain - but, again, price-rent ratio is just one tool for understanding where home prices are headed. Plus, there's that reality, sadly familiar to us all by now, that house prices don't always do what we think they're supposed...