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...make its GLBT students feel comfortable as other schools have, whether by hiring openly gay faculty members, offering courses in sexual orientation and the law or fostering a reputation as a diverse and accepting environment. One explanation is that the school has historically put a premium on intellectual and scholarly achievement, and has rarely seemed interested with how people spend their time outside the classroom or who they are as people...
...administration’s trade policy has placed a premium on the protection of intellectual property rights across the globe, at the expense of the world’s poorest. In its negotiations of bilateral and regional trade agreements, and most prominently through its influence in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the administration has relentlessly pressured developing nations to adopt stricter patent regimes. It has done so at the direct behest of the pharmaceutical lobby, which spends millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying expenses every year...
...would have thought. Aggressive-growth companies have done well: biotech, semiconductor companies, Internet companies--stocks you thought were going to go out of business. And so have big companies whose stock has come down dramatically, like EMC and Ericsson. Now it's a more level playing field, and the premium for quality companies over average companies is very small. So I think you would want to buy quality. You'd rather buy Wal-Mart, vs. J.C. Penney or Dell, vs. Hewlett-Packard...
...According to Zhang, each Beijinger annually quaffs 50 liters of beer. ("Some far more," he added, glancing at the bulge above my belt.) His job is to increase that, both by introducing new products and acquiring regional breweries. Besides its new premium Golden Rose beer ("rich in fragrance and beautiful in shape"), Yanjing also produces soft drinks, mineral water, soy sauce and vinegar, and will introduce a line of tea this spring...
...average $500,000 term-life-insurance policy for a 45-year-old male who weighs 188 lbs. or less costs about $375 a year, Simons says. If the policyholder weighs 252 lbs., the premium nearly doubles, to $740, and it jumps to $1,500 a year if he weighs more than...