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...Louisville - that considered students' race as just one factor in deciding where they should go to school. Both districts wanted to maintain integrated classrooms, and like hundreds of districts across the nation, they used race to periodically tweak the makeup of schools that were oversubscribed or racially out of whack in systems that otherwise let parents choose where their children attended class...
...global trading system has a built-in mechanism, of course, to deal with a country whose trade accounts get seriously out of whack with the rest of the world: currencies adjust in value against each other. China, with its surpluses, should see the renminbi go up over time, while the U.S. (with its enormous deficits) should see the dollar decline. But China has defied this system by clinging to a more or less fixed exchange rate. It has, after all, served the country well: the cheap RMB has encouraged the development of China's export-led industries, and attracted foreign...
...time being, at least, Beijing will continue to be a buyer of U.S. Treasury debt, helping keep interest rates low and the U.S. economy out of recession. But Paulson must know that the current trade relationship with China is seriously out of whack, and that something needs to give on the currency front sooner rather than later. He will no doubt try his best to persuade China that it is in its own interest to move faster - much faster - on the currency front this week. Whether China will listen is another matter...
...shoot for a target of balance that mirrors the demographics of the K-8 population,” Walser said. “That definition of balance I think is somewhat out of whack with the demographics of young families seeking to get into kindergarten...
...logged at the wrong time, million-dollar stock trades could be missed and automated equipment in emergency rooms or manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria are overblown, analysts say, many offices will be nettled by out-of-synch e-mail and Microsoft Outlook calendars - in other words, a lot of missed meetings. Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's vice...