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...decision to abandon an athletic stadium involves emotional and economic factors," McKeon said. "Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds--shouldn't the public have the right to say whether Yankee stadium meets that same fate...
...casino that threatens the financial lives of Americans? That's what John Steffens, a Merrill Lynch vice chairman in charge of stock brokerage, contends. He has gone to war against Internet trading in a series of public speeches, chronicled last week in the Wall Street Journal, urging individuals to abandon their free-trading ways and stick with the good old-fashioned (and expensive) hand-holding, broker-to-client method at which Merrill Lynch excels--and on which it is betting its future...
...shelling and bombing of hundreds of villages across Kosovo has forced close to 150,000 Kosovo Albanians to abandon what is left of their homes and run for their lives. Most of these displaced refugees are now living out in the open, in a very rugged mountainous territory. The bitter cold of the Balkan fall and winter will certainly add to their suffering. Most likely many of them will die, unless immediate action is taken...
...else would George Steinbrenner want to abandon The Stadium for a multi-billion dollar ballpark on the west side of Manhattan? Surely he knows that the money could be used to help people; real people, not stock symbols or baseball team owners or grown millionaires playing a kid's game...
...impose diktats from Washington. Many of the suggestions the IMF makes to borrowers, often in close consultation with the Treasury, are sound. But few of the nations are in any shape to digest, implement and enforce the Wizard of Oz transformations the institution wants. The fund needs to abandon its attempt to enforce deep structural reforms and focus instead on resuscitating these economies, particularly by helping them pay off their crippling short-term debt and managing their sliding currencies. The IMF may be right that these sick economies will eventually need brain transplants. But first they need a pulse...