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...student test scores. In coming weeks the company plans to convene a parent round table, introduce new math and reading curricula and step up training for teachers. "There are things here that are working and things thataren't, and we're taking time to figure that out,"says Sam Howard, director of school operations for Chancellor Beacon...
...Long Beach, Calif., was losing money before he reformatted with an anti-corporate feel, highlighting his giant antique coffee roaster and telling baristas to remember regular customers' names. He has been profitable ever since. "It's as close to a hometown watering hole as you can get," says client Howard Homan, a retired civil servant...
...asked the 20 largest life insurers to assess their liabilities on a "realistic basis" - a tough standard that takes into account such uncertainties as discretionary future benefits and fluctuating options values. The exercise was so complex that not all 20 companies were able to conduct it fully, according to Howard Davies, the FSA's chairman. The agency nonetheless concluded that the firms "had significant ability to withstand further large falls in equity values." For now, insurers are praying for the markets to recover. "We're still alive," Dock says, "but we look forward to seeing interest rates or equity values...
HMS’ Higginson Professor of Cell Biology Howard Green, who knew Horvitz since he began his current career as a professor at MIT over 20 years ago, described the Nobel laureate as “quiet, very diligent, very active, hardworking and serious...
Populist historian and Boston University professor Howard Zinn endorsed the Massachusetts Green Party’s gubernatorial candidate on Saturday in Cambridge’s First Parish Church...