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...term of the residency overall. In Roshanravan's native Switzerland, where she attended medical school subsidized by the government, she says the family-medicine specialty takes five years, not three as in the U.S. But that would require an even longer postgraduation period of low pay and accrual of debt in this country. "I don't think people want to have to wait to pay off all of that debt," says Roshanravan...
...between the ones that ... The difference in a parent who sees the value in investing in education. That was my - you know, I had many friends who could have gone to college but they didn't have parents who thought that they should go into debt to pay for them to go to college...
...cruelly random. She knew lots of bright kids growing up, she says, "and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God." She had friends who could have thrived in college, but their parents didn't believe in going into debt to pay for it. "I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed themselves over the course of the semester ... So I just keep thinking about...
...suspended in November, and the company recently said it would cut as many as 4,000 workers from its Macau operations. Late last year, Las Vegas Sands, which has been suffering from slumping revenues in the U.S. as well, appeared to be in danger of defaulting on its debt obligations until it raised more than $2 billion in capital - including some from Adelson himself - to stabilize its finances. (See a Hong Kong side trip: Macau...
...That may sound like peanuts to U.S. papers loaded down with hundreds of millions in debt as they battle plummeting ad revenues and the continued advance of Internet rivals. But while French papers haven't closed down like some American ones, they do face troubles of their own. Overall daily circulation has plummeted from a postwar high of 6 million to just 1.5 million today. The financial situation of most French papers has become so dire in recent years that the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided to augment annual state subsidies to the sector, which amount to between...