Investing in the lifespan-promoting healthcare sector allows public and corporate pension funds to isolate the variable that most imbalances their revenues and obligations.

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The fact of the matter is that you can at once believe that socioeconomic factors and other input-level factors are hugely determinative of student outcomes, and that we should be cognizant of that fact when considering teacher quality, AND that education quality is a meaningful variable in arriving at student outcomes, and we should continue to subsidize public education as a society.

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But Scott Zeger, the head of the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, who performed the statistical analysis in the study, points out that clustered sampling is the rule rather than the exception in public-health studies, and that the patterns of deaths caused by epidemics are also very variable by location.

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The Fed also allows the big banks to use the devices that Enron used to keep its skullduggery from the public view Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) with a new label, Variable Interest Entities (VIEs).

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