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Inflation, corporate results to drive stock mkts this week

New Delhi: Inflation data, corporate results and the progress of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, as investors await policy initiatives, will dictate the stock market trend this week. Inflation data on Tuesday will be a key event for the market in a shortened trading week because of the Independence Day holiday on Wednesday, August 15, [...]

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School districts to compete for nearly $400 million in Race to the Top awards

WASHINGTON – Hoping to build on state-level reforms aimed at closing the education achievement gap, the Education Department opened its Race to the Top competition to school districts on Sunday, inviting the poorest districts across the country to vie for almost $400 million in grants. Following four months of public comment on a draft proposal, [...]

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BMW in China Explains Europe’s Best New Bonds: Corporate Finance

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)’s China growth is being rewarded by investors who have pushed down relative yields on bonds sold in January by the biggest luxury carmaker more than any other new issue in Europe this year. The spread on BMW’s 1.25 billion euros ($1.5 billion) of notes due 2015 has narrowed 77 basis [...]

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SLU Law School Dean Resigns, Slams Administrators

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – St. Louis University Law Dean Annette Clark has announced her resignation from the law school with a scathing list of allegations against SLU President Father Lawrence Biondi and Vice President Dr. Manoj Patankar. “I no longer have confidence in either of your abilities to lead this institution or in your commitment [...]

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TRAFFIC ROUNDUP: Take lessons on safe driving in school zones

The Problem: Not knowing when to stop for a school bus and not slowing down in a school zone. The Law: South Carolina Code of Laws: 56-5-2770 indicates the law regarding the overtaking and passing of a school bus as follows: The driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus [...]

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Former SLU Law dean Clark sends more detailed letter to faculty, staff

Annette Clark resigned Wednesday as dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law. Greta Weiderman Web Editor- St. Louis Business Journal Email  | Twitter  | Facebook Annette Clark resigned Wednesday as dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law, and the St. Louis Business Journal has obtained a letter she sent to faculty and staff [...]

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School Keeps BB Gun Shooters’ Fate Confidential

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)- A student who was shot with a BB gun at school last term will not be returning to class this fall semester. Zykier Mosley-Long’s mother said there are too many questions about what happened to the students responsible for the incident. The school could not tell the family if the students would [...]

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Corporate Debt Restructuring system biased towards privileged customers: RBI …

MUMBAI: The corporate debt restructuring (CDR) process followed by banks, especially state-run lenders, is “biased towards more privileged customers”, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty said today. “Lack of ethics has given rise to unprecedented rise in CDR cases,” Chakrabarty told an event on CDR organised by brokerage firm Centrum here. “The CDR process [...]

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SLU law dean resignation letter details dispute with Biondi

Annette Clark, dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law, resigned effective immediately. Greta Weiderman Web Editor- St. Louis Business Journal Email  | Twitter  | Facebook Annette Clark, the dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law, resigned Wednesday, effective immediately. Clark joined the law school in 2011 from the Seattle University School of Law. [...]

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Minn. high court says schools must report spending

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that school districts must register and report campaign spending related to ballot questions. The ruling stems from a 2010 complaint against the St. Louis County School District. Complainants maintained district leaders and school board members violated state campaign laws by using public funds to promote the [...]

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