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Twenty students in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest return to school from holiday break with $50,000 in scholarships for making a difference in their communities Winners showcased on Citizens Bank and...

HEADNOTE Housing may be depressed, but CUs with the right strategies are cheering about their mortgage loan success. High deposit levels-even before banks drove more money to credit unions by attempting debit card...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As CPAs gear up for tax season, they'll find the Form 1040 series for 2011 looking much the same as that of the previous year, but only because of Congress 11th-hour...

Students in the Palmyra and West Jefferson Hills school districts improve their reading achievement levels on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment OAKLAND, Calif. -- More than three-quarters of Pleasant Hills Middle School...

After the financial crisis of 2008, foundations in Indiana and across the country set up special relief funds for their communities. Three years later, the one created in Indianapolis has collected $11.9 million,...

Landmark employee achievement announced on UN International Volunteer Day NEW YORK -- Alcoa (NYSE: AA) announced today a record 56 percent, or more than 31,000 employees, volunteered in their communities during the company's...

According the businessdictionary.com, transformation is defined as "a process of profound and radical change that orients an organisation in a new direction and takes it to an entirely different level of effectiveness. Unlike...

ABSTRACT We solve an empirically parameterized life-cycle model of consumption and pension choices to show how expected earnings growth and risk affect the benefits of final-salary defined benefit (DB) pension plans, relative to...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TO PARAPHRASE AN OLD MAXIM: IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the business of America is education. Nothing is more vital to the competitiveness and advancement of corporations large and small than a...

Professional book reviews, traditionally the purview of stalwart and staid media brands such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, as well as the lesser-known trade media...

HEADNOTE CASE DESCRIPTION The essence of this case is the evaluation of the impact of organizational structure on the efficiency of small municipal governments. The methodology used is that of Organizational Analysis (OA),...

America's Economic Future Increasingly Depends on Graduating More Latinos from College INDIANAPOLIS -- Latinos are the fastest-growing student population in America and a new effort is now focused on leveraging the critical connection...

HEADNOTE Dependency court judges struggle to achieve the best outcomes for children and families. Disproportionality and disparities in child welfare appear to be widely recognized, if not fully understood, phenomena.1 Dependency court judges...

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse),...

Brette A. Tschurtz, BA, associate project director, Department of Health Services Research, Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission; Richard G. Koss, MA, director, Department of Health Services Research, Division of Healthcare...

HEADNOTE ABSTRACT: Bioinformatics is the permutation and mishmash of biological science and 4IT. The discipline covers every computational tools and techniques used to administer, examine and manipulate huge sets of biological statistics. The...

The Secret Fate of Mary Watson Judy Johnson, author Eloise Oxer, narrator Bolinda Publishing 186 S Long Swamp Rd Jackson, ME 04921 9781742853024 $108.95 www.bolinda.com Victorian Premier's Literacy Award winning author Judy Johnson...

HEADNOTE New program offers eligible families discounts on Internet service, laptops LOW-INCOME FAMILIES now cali purchase Internet service at a discounted price - and educators can help spread the word. As part of...

HEADNOTE Today's academic libraries must demonstrate their value to cost-conscious university administrators. Accordingly, ... budget trade-off decisions that involve the library are the most difficult for any university administrator to make. To put...