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...when insiders raise wages at some firms, the effect spills over leading other firms to raise their wages.” It is not, then, primarily a question of market costs. For Harvard, it is rather a question of whether it will assume creative and imaginative leadership with its vast riches to eradicate the poverty in its midst...
...Republican White House, which received the vast majority of the Enron money, struck an unbothered pose, relieved that neither Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill nor Commerce Secretary Don Evans had lifted a finger when Enron came calling for help last fall. Still, the Bush team made one tiny bow to the explosive potential of the Enron scandal, hinting for the first time that it might fork over the details of Vice President Cheney's closed-door meetings with energy-industry officials last spring if a congressional committee requested them. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett predicted that those papers, if released, would...
...Within two years of their parents' divorce, the vast majority of children "are beginning to function reasonably well again...
...people would have said that was impossible [too]. What all of the countries of the region want is a stable partner. I think it's possible to get a broad-based regime, provided there is reconstruction work going on and some stability. In the end I believe that the vast majority of people the world over don't want to fight all the time, they want to get on with their lives...
...Football Research Unit at the University of Liverpool, "we should be surprised that there isn't more rock-'n'-roll- type behavior." It doesn't help that the game's authorities - the clubs and the Football Association - take contradictory stances when trouble arises. The clubs, perhaps because of the vast commercial considerations in modern football, tend to be lenient...