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Later this year, the Europeans will assess whether Turkey complies with its obligation to extend its customs union with the E.U. (in place since 1996) to Cyprus. Turkey will not do that unless there is tangible progress in ongoing talks about a political settlement on the island. But for this to happen, big E.U. countries will have to lean more heavily on the recalcitrant Greek Cypriots...
...made, they should focus on letting go ineffective teachers instead of simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based on a combination of seniority, years of teaching experience, and performance evaluation. Researchers have suggested a combination of “student-assessment data and principal evaluations” to assess effectiveness in the classroom and make cuts accordingly...
...Nonetheless, despite these obstacles, TALF could succeed in restoring the secondary market for ABS. Although rating agencies have yet to demonstrate that they can accurately assess the credit risk of these instruments, changes in the economy or regulatory action could alter this perception. And in the secondary market, buyers' concerns of ABS resold by investors may be mollified by their ability to secure relevant data on the underlying assets. For home loans, which will be eligible for securitization in future versions of TARP, this data could include the average FICO score of the borrowers, location of the property, the loan...
...This is all about access; it is not about making things beautiful and hoarding them,” says Jan Merrill-Oldham, Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian. “Its about finding ways to get this material to people. A very common scenario is for us to assess objects, to treat them, for cataloguers to improve bibliographic records so that those objects can be found by researches and then to digitize them at a very high quality so that materials are made available worldwide.”Much like a rare object on display at the Sackler, the Weissman Preservation...
...July 2005, for instance, the Aussies toured England just weeks after the deadly London tube and bus attacks. "I feel that sports all over the world and not only cricket in the sub-continent have to adapt to what is happening around us," Sangakkara says. "We need to assess the situation and then take appropriate measures...