Word: wyss
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...that makes 2011 a tough year to call. It will also be the year that all the Bush tax cuts expire. And Harris thinks that if a health-care overall gets passed, that could have significant unforeseen effects on the economy as well. S&P's chief economist, David Wyss, says he thinks most economists are tackling the tricky problem of predicting what will happen in 2011 by doing what they always do: predict the economy will do about average. The problem is that what economists have come to believe is average growth for the U.S. economy in recent years...
This year’s fundraising total was aided by a number of large donations, most notably a $125 million gift over the next five years—the largest in Harvard’s history—from Business School graduate Hansjörg Wyss to fund the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Allston. Gifts of over $1 million accounted for over 40 percent of the cash total...
...entertainment or comedy, then you may have heard of Blind Man’s Colour. If you wait around for a couple more years, the band will be a household name amongst hipsters and beachgoers alike. The band—hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida and led by Kyle Wyss and Orhan Chettri—released their debut LP this summer after six months of steady hype brought on by Kanye and others blogging about their music. “Season Dreaming” is the product of several years worth of material, and its title and the season...
...recently chartered Wyss Institute for bioengineering will move its laboratories into now empty floors in the Harvard Institute of Medicine Building within the next two months, while the systems biology department will remain in Longwood, according to the programs’ administrators...
...SEAS is slated to have a major part in the new Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, funded by a $125 million dollar donation and touted as a part of the Allston science complex that would strengthen the University’s nascent engineering efforts...