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...Lowell Spinners are the Red Sox Single A short-season affiliate a mere 30 miles from the mother park. They're a team of college grads and muscled-up American Legion heroes in possession of enthusiasm, dreams and not much chance. Shea Hillenbrand was a Spinner, a fact oft-noted in Lowell these days. But you look at what's happened to Hillenbrand during his second tour of big league pitching and you realize: maybe Lowell to Boston's not that short a drive...
Here comes the cavalry, and with 37 million people having invested $1.7 trillion in 401(k) plans--well, it's about time. This treasure needs protection. From what? No surprise. Surveys routinely show that the enemies of wealth are the oft confused owners of that very stockpile. Example: many investors believe that their company's stock is less risky than a diversified stock fund and that a bond fund is risk free, John Hancock Financial Services finds...
...buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
From the beginning, certain names came to mind. Within the University, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza “Condi” Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...
...oft-cited concern that adopting a living wage will force an employer to alter its entire wage scale?alled wage compression?ardner says that Cambridge considers raising workers?wages on a case-by-case basis, and the city does not automatically raise everyone? wages when the living wage figure is adjusted annually...