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...Congress to help troubled financial institutions. "If you are based in Detroit you know the entire supply chain is in trouble. The liquidity situation in the supply chain has deteriorated significantly," says Steve D'Arcy, the director of Pricewaterhouse Cooper's consulting practice in Detroit. (Archive: "Iacocca's Tightrope Act...
Surely this wasn't what Barack Obama had in mind when he imagined the days leading up to his historic Inauguration. On Tuesday, the President-elect journeyed to Capitol Hill to try to avoid the possibility that his first act in office will be vetoing a bill passed by both houses of Congress...
...governments of the U.S. and E.U. are faced with another act of "the great bank salvation." This time around it is not clear what the Fed and Treasury will get for their capital. They already hold equity in all of the large financial firms due to recent investment from the TARP. What faces the system now is whether the federal government will end up with de facto control of the private banking system...
...millet - to breed hybrid-crop varieties that are more capable of withstanding higher temperatures. We'll need to drop any squeamishness about consuming genetically modified crops. Unless we can tap the power of genetics, we'll never feed ourselves in a warmer world. But we'll need to act quickly. It can take years to breed more heat-resistant species, and investment in agricultural research has shriveled in recent years...
...then let them be. Lo! Allah is Relenting, Mericful. (4.16)” Since no method of punishment is indicated, Shar’ia law leaves punishment to the judiciary. In the case of Senegal, Penal Article 319.3 provides that “whoever commits an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between one and five years.”This law, however, has not been invoked much in secular Senegal until now. Generally, as Imam Amadou Kanté acknowledges, homosexuality is treated much like public drunkenness...