Word: rethink
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...Other debt. Rethink all the ways you are using leverage, such as carrying credit-card debt while owning stocks or borrowing against your home to buy a boat. As rates go up, the investment or enjoyment return on whatever you purchased must go up commensurately for the arrangement to make sense. Dump as much debt as you can. If the economy tanks and your income goes down, high-rate credit-card debt, especially, can ruin you. Pay off high-rate non-tax-deductible debts first. If possible, consolidate your nondeductible debts--including auto loans--into a deductible home-equity loan...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) is experiencing significant staff turnover in the next few months. D.E. Lorraine Sterritt and Sarah B. Drummond, both Associate Deans of Freshmen, will be leaving at the end of the semester. The need for new personnel presents the office with the opportunity to rethink its current structure and, by extension, its approach to first-year issues. In particular, the FDO should make first-year advising its first priority...
...period of denial in the EU, member states are finally coming to terms with their miscalculation. After the last meeting of all 15 foreign ministers, Austria's foreign minister proudly proclaimed that at least six EU members openly showed their uneasiness with the sanctions and demonstrated the willingness to rethink them. Even though the remaining countries--particularly Germany, France and Belgium--still support the current EU policies towards Austria, the meeting showed a first break in this hitherto unified stand against one of its members...
...supporters of the exam say a standardized test covering state-wide frameworks will force districts to rethink languishing curriculum...
...paper last week but adds, "This is nothing. It will go back up." Tom Jacobs, a New Jersey executive, agrees. "While they got beat up pretty badly this week, I believe they'll come back by the end of the year." At 61, he sees no reason to rethink retirement plans. "I've been through this before, and I believe that the place to be is in the stock market," he says. "You can't put it underneath your mattress." Of course not. But last week that Simmons Beautyrest fund seemed worth considering...