Word: zero
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...that did. With that market vaporized, Washington can increase tax credits all it wants, but the policy will have little effect. The answer is to make the tax credits directly refundable, so that if a solar start-up can use its credits to reduce its tax bill to below zero, it would actually receive a check from the government for the difference. "That would solve the problem, and we could go right to work," says O'Brien...
...passed tens of billions of dollars of loans to banks and brokerages through its emergency lending window. It has lowered interest rates to zero. Treasury has put $25 billion into each of the money center banks. It is now backing over $300 billion in bad assets held by Citigroup (C) through a loss-sharing agreement. Bank of America (BAC) is getting a similar deal. The programs to back bad assets is almost certainly going to spread. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...live-birth rates. Researchers had to extrapolate from their existing data the likely outcomes for patients who discontinued treatment: In the "optimistic" analysis, researchers assumed that the women who discontinued treatment would have had the same success rates as those who continued treatment; the "conservative" analysis assumes a zero success rate among all women who discontinued IVF at that particular clinic. Realistically, say the authors, the actual live-birth rates would fall somewhere in the middle of the range...
...address the issue that in today's society so many clothes are tailored to fit women who wear a size zero and not a size 12? Lei Lani De Santiago, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...resolution—which passed by a vote of eight to zero with one abstention—specifically urges the United States government to press for a cease-fire on both sides, an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, access for journalists, and access to humanitarian...