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...concerns are twofold. The first is fraud, which was underscored last year when the principals of Bayou Management pleaded guilty to bilking investors of $450 million by telling some fairly brazen lies. Regulators are examining whether some hedge funds may be making illegal insider trades in certain situations, as when companies privately talk to their lenders...
...higher education, the benefits of affirmative action programs are twofold: They act as a corrective to socioeconomic and racial disparities in access to opportunity, and also create more diverse (and thus constructive) educational environments. Neither of these is a benefit that colleges, universities, and school districts in Michigan and throughout the nation can afford to lose...
Harvard undergrads will be able to choose among 36 “secondary fields,” or minors, this spring, pending the approval of a Faculty committee. That marks an almost twofold increase in the number of secondary field proposals submitted over the past three weeks...
...National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), said the results of the study explain why the NICHD’s campaign to have healthy babies sleep on their back has worked. According to Spong, the program has led to a decrease in the SIDS rate by twofold since its inception in 1994. Spong also emphasized the sentimental significance of the study. “One of the hugest problems with SIDS is that it’s difficult for families [with victims of SIDS], because they have no reason for why the baby died...
...Alckmin's problems were twofold: First, Lula convincingly portrayed the former physician as the candidate of the rich, and Alckmin could not shake off the image in the minds of many voters of a button-down bogeyman out to privatize state assets and roll back the generous benefits programs that help many of Brazil's poor survive. Alckmin performed so well in the debates that Lula called their first confrontation the worst night of his political life. But in a country where informality reigns, Alckmin's starched collars and finely cut suits did not ingratiate him with the poor northeasterners...