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...apparel industry overall suffered a 4% drop, sales of pajamas jumped 34% from 2001 to '02, according to NPD Fashionworld, a market-information company. Copresident Marshal Cohen predicts that pajamas as streetwear will be a big trend this spring. "No one wants to spend money on clothing anymore," he says, "but consumers are willing to spend money on something that allows them not to have to change clothes three times...
...take are pension and tax reform. Brazil has a millstone public bureaucracy: its salaries and pensions take more than 8% of the nation's $1 trillion gross domestic product. Reining in the corrupt pension system, simplifying Brazil's baroque tax code and combatting massive tax evasion could help Lula drop interest rates and free up at least $5 billion - more than half of Brazil's entire education budget - for projects like Zero Hunger. "This government's macroeconomic approach has been impeccable," says Paulo Leme, head of emerging market analysis at Goldman Sachs in New York, noting wryly that...
...there are students who choose to drop out for grade reasons—after performing poorly on a midterm, for example—it is likely that these students would not contribute much to grade inflation. Larger classes that have early midterms often also have pre-determined grade distributions. Because of their curves, these classes will award similar final grades regardless of whether students at the bottom of the distribution drop the class, and those students dropping will not contribute to grade inflation...
...satisfied with the current deadline, and use their energy to fight against detrimental changes, like the proposed move to preregistration. And when it gets the chance, the Faculty should use sound reasoning and concern for students to rule against preregistration, preserving our current shopping period instead. By maintaining the drop deadline, the Faculty Council has rightfully established a precedent of defending our present, effective system of class selection, registration and add-drop deadlines...
...second drop in the second event (6:51.6) moved her to fourth in the international field and second in the collegiate...