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...does approve a change to the calendar, students might still have a long wait before stress-free winter breaks and easier enrollment at other schools. Any large-scale changes to the calendar must be approved by the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing body, which is set to meet on June 6. If the Corporation approves Bok's decision, the changes will likely take several years to implement...
...grew into a monster, gaining layer upon layer of intermediaries, none of whom added any value to the fruits and vegetables they traded even as they added on their own margins. The result: a grossly inefficient system in which farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers routinely go into debt to the very traders who buy their produce and then sell them seeds and fertilizers for the next crop. Customers, meantime, had little choice but to accept food of uneven quality and unreliable supply. "Something that was designed to protect farmers...
...that as a protective parent, I probably will have to sacrifice some of my child's innocence and trust, before someone else does. I really need to tell my 5-year-old that she is not to "play" with strangers, however affectionate they might be. But perhaps I can wait till she turns...
Praxeres and his compatriots will have to wait a while. Though Chevron and Exxon Mobil may have lost some of their earlier excitement over São Tomé, seismologists are convinced the oil is there - up to 11 billion barrels, according to Exxon Mobil's survey in 2000. But as yet, it's not clear how accessible those reserves might be. That gives São Tomé's people time to think and dream - but to do so with a caution that not all Africans have shown when the drillers come to town. In Club Tropicana, Salvaterra ponders...
...have a standard retirement age, you may be more apt to delay thinking about these issues. "It's often an imminent retirement date that provides the catalyst to start planning," Skillman says. Getting laid off or accepting an early-retirement package can force your hand. But don't wait until you get a severance check to begin planning...