Kennedy Returns Home To Recuperate From Brain Surgery
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After recovering for a week from brain surgery, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was released from the hospital Monday.
Doctors for the 76 year-old Massachusetts Democrat are pleased with Kennedy’s progress since his June 2 operation, and he will continue to recuperate at his Hyannis Port home before starting radiation treatments and chemotherapy, according to a statement [...]
Senator Kennedy Spokesman On Declining Job Numbers
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Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, released the following statement concerning today’s jobs numbers, which showed a dramatic jump in the unemployment rate from 5.0 to 5.5 percent and an increase by 861,000 in the number of unemployed Americans (to a total of 8.5 million).
Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
UPDATE 1Canada to kill opposition tax break plan Flaherty
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OTTAWA, March 10 (Reuters) - Canada’s minority Conservative
government will kill off an opposition education savings plan
in order to keep the federal budget out of deficit, Finance
Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday.
“We’re going to protect the balanced budget,” Flaherty told
reporters. He was referring to a plan by Liberal legislator Dan
McTeague that would make payments [...]
Congress frets over sluggish student loan market
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid growing concern about the sluggish student loan market, two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to ensure loan availability this summer as young people headed for college lock in their financing.
The bills from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and California Rep. George Miller, both Democrats, would mandate a sharply higher level of federal [...]
W.House backs much of House student loan bill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it supports major provisions of a bill expected to come to a vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives that aims to stabilize the troubled student loan market.
“The administration is committed to ensuring that students and their parents have access to the federal student aid [...]
Student Loan Corp says it suspends some lending
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“These changes reflect the decisive action that is needed
to manage our business through this difficult time in the
overall economy,” Michael Reardon, chief executive of SLC, said
in a statement.
SLC’s announcement came amid growing concern about student
loan availability this autumn.
Last year, Congress slashed federal subsidies paid to
lenders involved in the federally guaranteed student loan
program.
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W.House backs much of House student loan bill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it supports major provisions of a bill expected to come to a vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives that aims to stabilize the troubled student loan market.
“The administration is committed to ensuring that students and their parents have access to the federal student aid [...]
Student Loan Corp says it suspends some lending
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“These changes reflect the decisive action that is needed
to manage our business through this difficult time in the
overall economy,” Michael Reardon, chief executive of SLC, said
in a statement.
SLC’s announcement came amid growing concern about student
loan availability this autumn.
Last year, Congress slashed federal subsidies paid to
lenders involved in the federally guaranteed student loan
program.
[...]
Student Loan Corp suspends some lending
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“These changes reflect the decisive action that is needed
to manage our business through this difficult time in the
overall economy,” Michael Reardon, chief executive of SLC, said
in a statement.
Shares of SLC, majority-owned by Citigroup Inc’s (C.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
Citibank N.A., were up 3.2 percent to $107.68 in late morning
trading on the New York Stock [...]
