Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

She plans to move to the state, and to make more use of both her prodigious ability to raise money and her fiercely loyal core group of liberal supporters, who, if properly motivated, will knock on every door.

ECONOMIST: Hillary Clinton

In corporate news Ford Motor is in talks to sell its Volvo unit, the culmination of a prescient multiyear strategy to raise cash and to concentrate on its core American brands.

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And with the bank working hard raise capital through the sale of any non-core or loss-making assets, it was only a matter of time before the insurance division was targeted.

FORBES: RBS Looking At $1.5 Billion Dividend

In lowering the reserve ratio to 1% from 2%, the ECB is hoping that banks can raise enough capital to meet 9% of their core Tier 1 ratios by June 2012, a level that the central bank set in October.

FORBES: Leading German Bank Denies Need For Public Funds

BofA will describe those sales as a way to exist non-core businesses but make no mistake it is also using it as a way to raise capital.

FORBES: Don't Hold Your Breath, Big Banks Will Not Be Broken Up

If there is no sign of a rise in the core rate of inflation (excluding energy prices), then there is no need to raise interest rates.

ECONOMIST: How should central banks respond to a rise in oil prices?

This evening, as the core of Sandy moves ashore, the storm will carry with it a gigantic bulge of water that will raise waters levels to the highest storm tides ever seen in over a century of record keeping, along much of the coastline of New Jersey and New York.

FORBES: Hurricane Sandy's Storm Surge: A Preview of Things to Come