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The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-12 to more than $440,000 a year. This increase vastly outpaced the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in the U.S. economy. Perhaps, most relevant for this community, it also surpassed the compensation growth for university professors.
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Ethanol plunged after an Energy Information Administration report showed output last week jumped the most in more than two years.
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The Syrian opposition’s newly elected interim Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto pledged that rebel- held areas will apply the rule of law, as he began to build a government to replace President Bashar al-Assad.
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The multi-generation reign of U.S. farmers as the world’s largest corn exporters is about to end, after three straight years of slumping harvests ceded market share to Brazil, where production doubled since 2005.
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Tai Nguyen, an expert-networking consultant who pleaded guilty to leaking inside information to ex-SAC Capital Advisors LP fund manager Noah Freeman and others, deserves as long as 57 months in prison, prosecutors said.
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The lawsuit challenging Anheuser- Busch InBev NV’s $20.1 billion proposed takeover of Grupo Modelo SAB is part of a record-breaking U.S. docket of civil antitrust cases, reflecting the Obama administration’s greater willingness to intervene in markets, according to some antitrust scholars.
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Ethanol weakened against gasoline on concern demand isn’t strong enough to cut a glut of the biofuel.
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U.S. farm income will set a record in 2013, reflecting the anticipated rebuilding of crop reserves depleted by drought that will not be sold until future years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
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U.S. farm income will set a record in 2013, reflecting the anticipated rebuilding of crop reserves depleted by drought that will not be sold until future years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
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The twin punch of a meteor raining destruction on remote Russia and an asteroid hurtling past Earth prompted calls from scientists and political leaders for greater vigilance to combat risks from the heavens.
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