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Similarly competitive, HCSIP has witnessed more than a three-fold increase in the number of applicants, from 45 in 2008 to 145 in 2010. Of the 145 students who applied this year, 60 will be granted the opportunity to intern at various Chinese companies, according to John Chen, who, as executive director of the Harvard China Fund, co-founded HCSIP...
Scalise was unable to be reached for comment, but freshman Charles Gertler said that the rationale for Bajwa’s contract non-renewal was three-fold...
Facing reductions in state funding, public universities from Michigan to Arizona to North Carolina have slashed budgets and hiked tuition. The most extreme case is California where University of California regents voted this week to increase tuition a whopping 32% to more than $10,000 annually - a three-fold increase in a decade. The move was greeted by student demonstrations. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...these designers since it’s so unexpected.” What started as an intriguing idea between two friends eventually became a full-blown student-run charity fashion show that features designs by fashion professionals and Parsons graduates. Parent says his objectives for the event are three-fold. “The first goal is to promote Asian and Asian-American designers and their talent. There are a lot of talented, young, smaller designers that don’t get enough recognition,” he says. “We also want to raise money...
Shortly after the turn of the century, though, the housing boom began to spin out of control. As incomes and employment in Ireland rose, cheap credit and tax incentives fueled a buying frenzy that pushed up both prices and housing stock: the cost of an average house rose almost three-fold in the decade through 2006, while some 40% of the country's housing was built in the last decade, according to Brian Devine, an economist at Dublin-based stockbrokers NCB. At the Grange, a swish 11-acre (4.5 ha) development in Dublin, realtors sold 15 luxury apartments a week...