Carney May Resist FedLike Rate Cuts to Curb Canada#39;s Inflation
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Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Mark Carney, the former Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. investment banker who takes over the Bank of Canada
today, may resist matching Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernankes rapid
interest-rate cuts in a bid to secure his inflation credentials.
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Jittery employers cut jobs
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WASHINGTON In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt, if it hasn’t already toppled into recession.
Conditions are deteriorating, according to [...]
7thgraders beat college students at investing
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Westminster College honors students paid off a bounty owed to seventh-graders at Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School Thursday, as the young financiers not only out-spent but out-saved their competition in a stock-picking match.
“The way it turned out made it not a competition of who made the [...]
Alan Bennett Was Right About Getting Into Oxford Coaches Show
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — James Uffindell, wearing a pinstriped
suit and walkie-talkie headset, races along the corridors of an
18th-century manor outside Oxford, England, as he presides over
an October weekend retreat for 175 ambitious teenagers.
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Zapatero Calls Election as Economic Growth Slows (Update3)
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero today set national elections for March 9,
triggering a campaign likely to focus on the end of a decade-
long economic boom and renewed separatist violence.
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Zapatero to Call Vote Amid Slowing Economy Separatist Violence
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero plans to call for a March 9 election today,
triggering a campaign likely to focus on the end of a decade-long
economic boom and renewed separatist violence.
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Know your place …
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The English education system is sliding back into Victorian times with today’s schools almost as segregated by social class as they were in the 19th century, a controversial new book argues. The Education Debate, published tomorrow, draws a parallel between today’s academies, faith and comprehensive schools, and the elementary, grammar and public schools of more [...]
Lies damned lies and predictions
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You might call it 2020 vision - that special gift that enables some people to predict with impressive confidence what things are going to be like 12 years from now.The prime minister apparently has it, though it was when he was chancellor that it shone out. In his budget statement in March 2006, Gordon Brown [...]
To have and have not
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Withywood Community school takes its name from the large postwar estate it serves in south Bristol. Its headteacher, Bob Thornton, says his pupils and their parents are the “salt of the earth” and on the up. Official Ofsted forms tell a story of a community where “self-esteem, empowerment and literacy are historically very low”. On [...]
Rescuing academic refugees
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Fitsum Habtemariam was a lecturer in Eritrea in December 2004, a time of political upheaval. A government official asked him what he thought about the situation during a meeting at the university.”I thought it was really positive when someone came to ask for my opinion, and I thought it would make a difference. I gave [...]
