FEATURE
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You're Not No. 1
September 28, 2010 | Inside Higher Ed
The advance briefing for reporters covering the release of the National Research Council's ratings of doctoral programs may have made history as the first time a group doing rankings held a news conference at which it seemed to be largely trying to write them off. No one on the committee endorsed the actual rankings, and committee members said that there might well be better ways to rank
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U.S. Is Losing its Competitive Edge
October 1, 2010 | Fortune
The Carlyle Group co-founder says the U.S. threatens to fall behind China, thanks to our growing deficit and government debt. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner downplays the threat of a looming trade war.
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Pensions: Angry Populists' Next Target
September 30, 2010 | Fortune Magazine
In these dog days of our Great Recession, no one is feeling especially lenient toward taxpayer-funded fat cats. But what if that "fat cat" isn't some Wall Street banker but rather the retired small-town city manager in Northern California living on $261,000 or the 40-year-old former New York City cop who gets to collect $100,000 a year for the rest of his life?
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Minnesota’s R&D Tax Credit: the Best Tool you’ve Never Heard Of
October 1, 2010 | MedCity News
There’s little doubt that Minnesota’s historic $60 million angel investment tax credit has received the lion’s share of publicity, especially from this publication. But lost in the same jobs bills that passed in April is a gem whose importance rivals or even exceeds the angel credit. Beginning in 2011, companies can receive a tax credit for the first 10 percent of up to $2 million of qualified R&D expenses
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