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...press reports pegged part of the cause to his frustration over how all major decisions had to be run past regulators and how those decisions were often dictated by policy goals and not what was best for the company. Freddie Mac executives have estimated that this year it will cost the firm $30 billion to carry out the Obama Administration's housing plans, which, they wrote in a regulatory filing, "are likely to have a significant adverse effect on our financial results or condition...
...inspiration for the bill: Pennsylvania's community colleges, 10 of which have enrolled 1,062 unemployed workers in free training programs this semester, at a total cost to the schools of $741,788. "They shouldn't have to foot the bill alone," Casey says. "My bill will encourage other community colleges across the U.S. to do the same thing." Senate Democrats are working to build bipartisan support for the bill and expect to move it forward in the coming months. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...silver lining for Georgia taxpayers? HOPE doesn't cost them a dime. The program, which has shelled out $4.4 billion in tuition money since its inception in 1994, is entirely funded by the Georgia State Lottery...
...shelling out $874.36 for the “Slumber Party Package.” Judging from the spare change listed in the price of the package—which includes a homemade breakfast and ukulele serenade—the duo has meticulously computed the cost of their company (or perhaps is just employing the concept of psychological pricing from their days in Ec10...
...Professor Marc D. Hauser, the leader of the study, will reveal “the extent to which domestication will change dogs into the proximity of human thinking.” The lab formerly housed 40 cottontop tamarin monkeys but were recently replaced by dogs because of the high cost of caring for the monkeys. This switch from monkeys to dogs has struck fear into the hearts of many on-campus dog-lovers, who worry that the dogs will be used in harsh tests. “They don’t hook the dogs up to those crazy electro...